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5 April A Curtiss C-46 Commando operating for US Airlines, leased from the USAF, a cargo flight with two occupants inbound from Raleigh-Durham International Airport, crashed 4.4 miles north of Idlewild tower in heavy rain and overcast conditions at the intersection of 169 Street and 89th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
The airport was soon a financial success. A smaller airport in nearby Jackson Heights, Holmes Airport, was unable to prevent the expansion of the larger airport and closed in 1940. [39] [40] Newark Airport began renovations, but could not keep up with the new Queens airport, which TIME called "the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the ...
The Kennedy Airport Interchange serves as a major access point to and from Kennedy Airport, in addition to points east, north, and west. It is a junction point for four controlled-access highways (the Belt Parkway, the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678), the Nassau Expressway (I-878 / NY 878), and the JFK Expressway), as well as two major surface streets (North / South Conduit Avenue (NY 27) and ...
Bergen Basin is a tributary inlet to Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York, at the northern extremity of Grassy Bay, along the western boundary of John F. Kennedy International Airport. The airport was built on the marshes of Jamaica Bay surrounding Bergen Basin in 1942. [1] Bergen Basin was previously known as Bergen's Landing Aqueduct or Bergen Creek.
A Boeing 737-700 operated by the new Eastern Air Lines as Flight 3452—carrying Mike Pence, then the Republican vice presidential nominee and the governor of Indiana—skidded off Runway 22 after landing. The aircraft was ultimately stopped by the EMAS bed just before the Grand Central Parkway. No one was injured in the incident.
An airline passenger karate-chopped the neck of a Customs and Border Protection officer trying to keep her out of a prohibited zone at JFK Airport, the feds allege. Emilia Mathias, 57, who law ...
New York City — A possible bird strike just after takeoff forced an American Airlines passenger jet Thursday night to make an emergency landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New ...
An escalator at New York’s JFK International Airport caught fire, causing smoke to fill one of the terminals, according to FDNY. Firefighters arrived around 7 a.m. Wednesday after receiving ...