Same day, 55 years ago, the air is so terrible accident occurred. Two aircraft collided. Not only the passengers who are victims of aircraft, road users on land was dying because of it.
Reporting from the History Channel, a total of 134 people were killed. The incident was also touted as the most unsuspected air collision that occurred in a large city in US history at the time.
Before the accident occurred, December 16, 1960 morning, the weather in New York was snowing. Aircraft flight United Airlines DC-8 from England to Chicago to the Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in southern Queens running normally.
At the same time, a TWA Super Constellation airplane from Dayton, Ohio, was heading for LaGuardia Airport in Queens North.
Due to the snowy weather, United DC-8 aircraft perform a holding pattern flight pattern. But the pilot miscalculated and his flying ship into the TWA flight path.
Then the accident happened. Boom ... ! The aircraft collided hard. Christmas gifts carried by passenger aircraft was strewn in the streets.
"It was like a fairy tale. Suddenly there was an explosion. The plane crashed and people started screaming. I held on to the seat and then kunaiki airplane crashed," said 11-year-old passenger named Stephen Baltz. He was initially survived the crash, but he died of his injuries were so severe.
TWA plane crashed into Miller Field, a military airfield in Staten Island. United DC-8 aircraft was lost one engine and right-wing. The airplane crashed in the area of Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The aircraft initially led to the Academy of St. Augustine, but eventually he crashed into an apartment building and the Pillar of Fire Church. Dozens of other buildings burned in the blast that arise.
Fire-fighting efforts lasted for almost 72 hours because there were several fires due to the accident.
"The apartments roof collapsed and I saw the sky," said Mrs. Robert Nevin, who was sitting in an apartment upstairs when the plane hit the building.
128 people on both planes dying. Even with 6 people on the streets. Including Wallace Lewis, 90-year-old sexton, and two people who sell Christmas trees near the house of worship.
On the other hemisphere on December 16, in different years, 1899 was recorded as the first moment of the creation of Italian football club, AC Milan. While in 1922, the President of Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz killed.
