What the records say
- When
- 16 Dec 1951
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 40.67° N, 74.22° W
- Description
- airliner Crash Incident
- Deaths
- 58
1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash
1951 aviation accident in New Jersey
On December 16, 1951, a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando airliner crashed in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, shortly after taking off from nearby Newark Airport. All 56 people on board were killed. At the time, it was the second-deadliest aviation accident on US soil, behind Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501.
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