On Friday, December 16, 1960, a United DC-8 and TWA Super Constellation collided in mid-air over Staten Island.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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I remember this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16

• 1960 – A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.

Hat tip, Dennis Donovan

Wed Dec 16, 2020: 60 Years Ago Today; Mid-air collision over New York City

[marybourg]

1. One of the fuselages slammed into the ground

near downtown Brooklyn, causing my college classmate to come running into class yelling :”a missile! a missile landed on Flatbush Ave!” It was the height of the cold war. Within a few minutes, even in the pre-internet age, word came from the college admin of the true situation and asked for blood donors to line up outside the college medical office. A few minutes later we were disbursed with the news that the only survivor, a young boy, had also died.