Air disaster

Northeast Airlines Flight 258

15 Aug 1958 · 41.26° N, 70.05° W

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When
15 Aug 1958
Kind
Air disaster
Coordinates
41.26° N, 70.05° W
Description
1958 aviation accident
Deaths
25

Northeast Airlines Flight 258

1958 aviation accident

Northeast Airlines Flight 258 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York's La Guardia Airport that crashed while trying to land at Nantucket Memorial Airport, Massachusetts, at 11:34 on the night of August 15, 1958. All three crew-members and 20 of the 31 passengers were killed, among them Gordon Dean, former chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

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