On December 16, 1960, two planes collided over New York City, falling debris, loading and bodies in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Staten Island. More than five decades later, the devastation of that day - captured by photographers from life in the hours after the disaster, still shocks.
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Hail and fog limited visibility in the sky over New York when Trans World Airlines flight 266, with 44 people aboard United flight 826, a plane Douglas DC-8 carrying 84 people, they crossed and clashed. The wreckage of the TWA plane landed in the isolated Miller Army Airfield on Staten Island. The destroyed plane United proved much more catastrophic, hitting Brooklyn densely populated neighborhood of Park Slope. Fallen debris killed six people on the ground, including two men selling Christmas trees. A jet stream sparked a fire seven, destroying 10 buildings.
All told, 134 people were killed: 128 passengers and crew of the aircraft and six in Brooklyn.
While that certainly air there have been disasters resulting in more deaths than the "Park Slope Plane Crash", as it came to be called, in the years since December 1960, caused destruction that the mid-air collision was devastating. He also served as a sad omen of worse horrors associated with airline, with rapid global growth of air transport, they were virtually guaranteed to come.
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