Remember The 1960 Two Airliner Crash In Brooklyn?

[coots]

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December 16, 1960 a United Airlines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation collided in the air killing all 128 passengers on both planes and 6 people on the ground. Remnants of the devastating crash are see here in Brooklyn's Park Slope Area shortly after the fiery crash.






Read the plaque on the church..."Pillar Of Fire"











Armed with an ax a fireman hacks away at the cabin of an airliner in an effort to pull out the pilot believed to be trapped inside


A patrol examines a jet engine that has landed in Dongan Hills in Staten Island.


Police block off parts of the accident scene in Miller Field, Staten Island where the seats of the TWA plane lie in the open field.

[mrwizard]

I was eleven at the time but I remember it well. One of my neighbors was killed in that crash and my father, who was on the City job, was detailed there for days. The neighbor was the brother of one of my friends and was coming home on leave after completing Naval Basic training at Great lakes. It was the first time that someone I knew fairly well was killed.

[redstone14]

Very sad to see something like that even after the passage of time. A lot of damage but little fire. I guess there was little fuel on board those planes.

[ncpdretired]

I remember the crash well. I had just gotten assigned a seat in a car (510) and the west end of the post was Elmont Road which was the glide path of them then, Idelwilde airport (now JFK). I was told by other guys on the car that once in a while, some times "things" would fall off the planes as they landed. The only "thing" I ever was involved in finding on a call was the frozen blue refuse from the toilets in a plane that was landing which fell in somebodys back yard. Another 32b….
It was a terrible loss of life in that mid air collision….