Saturday, January 21, 2012

Tragedy in the skies: Striking photos show horrific 1960 Brooklyn airline collision

Via Theo Spark

Decades before the September 11th terrorist attacks, New York City saw another tragic event in its skies, when two airliners collided in mid-air over Brooklyn, weeks before Christmas.

Two passenger planes – United Airlines Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 – collided while they were making their descents toward Idlewild and LaGuardia on December 16, 1960, leaving a trail of carnage and flames in their wake.

But out of the tragedy, a new era of airline safety measures was instigated, including the way flight recorders - commonly called black boxes - are used to investigate airline crashes.

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