What the records say
- When
- 30 Jun 1956
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 36.17° N, 111.83° W
- Description
- mid-air collision
- Deaths
- 128
- Injured
- 0
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
1956 mid-air collision over Arizona
On June 30, 1956, a Lockheed L-1049A Super Constellation operating as TWA Flight 2, was struck by a Douglas DC-7 Mainliner operating as United Air Lines Flight 718 over Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The Constellation fell into the canyon, while the DC-7 slammed into a cliff. All 128 people on board both aircraft died, making it the first commercial airline incident to exceed one hundred fatalities.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: A TWA Lockheed Constellation and United Airlines Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Flugzeugkollision über dem Grand Canyon”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Над Большим Каньоном столкнулись самолёты Douglas DC-7 Mainliner компании United Airlines и Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation компании TWA”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “اصطدام طائرتين فوق الأخدود العظيم غرب الولايات المتحدة، ما أسفر عن مقتل 128 شخص”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “グランドキャニオン空中衝突事故。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page