1960 New York air disaster

When

16 Dec 1960

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

40.56° N, 74.10° W

Description

Mid-air collision

Deaths

134

Injured

0

Aviation disaster in New York City

On December 16, 1960, a United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 heading for Idlewild Airport in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport. The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, killing all 128 aboard the two aircraft and six people on the ground.

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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 “New York mid-air collision: A United Air Lines DC-8 collides in mid-air with a TWA Lockheed Constellation over Staten Island in New York City”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Flugzeugkollision von New York City”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “над Нью-Йорком столкнулись самолёты Douglas DC-8-11 компании United Air Lines и Lockheed L-1049-54 Super Constellation компании TWA, погибли 134 человека”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “16 de diciembre colisión aérea de Nueva York de 1960”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1960年ニューヨーク空中衝突事故発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page