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Death in the Air, Time, 26 December 1960. Newsreel film footage of crash; Nelson, Libby. "The Boy Who Survived a 1960 Midair Crash" . The New York Times. 30 June 2009. "127 die as 2 airliners collide over the city; jet sets Brooklyn fire, killing 5 others; the second plane crashes on Staten Island" . The New York Times. Vol CX. No. 37,583.
The Crowded Sky is a 1960 American Technicolor drama film distributed by Warner Bros., produced by Michael Garrison, directed by Joseph Pevney [2] and starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. [3] [4] The film is based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Hank Searls.
National Airlines Flight 2511 was a United States domestic passenger flight from New York City to Miami, Florida.On January 6, 1960, the Douglas DC-6 serving the flight exploded in midair.
With 144 deaths, it was the deadliest accident to occur in the United States, surpassing the 1960 New York mid-air collision's 134 fatalities, until eight months later when American Airlines Flight 191 crashed with 273 deaths. As of 2021, it is the sixth-deadliest aviation disaster in the United States (not including terrorism), as well as the ...
Mid-air explosion Martin Johnson: United States 1937 Adventurer and film producer Western Air Express Flight 7: near Saugus, California: Controlled flight into terrain into mountainous terrain Ralph Johnstone: United States 1910 Aviator, first American pilot fatality Wright Model B: Denver, Colorado Crashed on 17 November 1910 Charles Edward Jones
Additional aviation-themed precursors to the popular disaster films of the 1970s included Jet Storm and Jet Over the Atlantic, two 1959 films both featuring attempts to blow up an airplane in mid-flight; The Crowded Sky (1960) which depicts a mid-air collision; and The Doomsday Flight (1966), written by Rod Serling and starring Edmond O'Brien ...
On some occasions, military aircraft conducting training flights inadvertently collide with civilian aircraft. The 1958 collision between United Air Lines Flight 736 and a fighter jet, and another U.S. military/civilian crash one month later involving Capital Airlines Flight 300, hastened the signing of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 into law.
This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving mid-air collisions. [1] [2] [3] In aviation, a mid-air collision is an accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and the likelihood of subsequent impact with the ground or sea, very severe damage ...