Summary:
On a quiet December morning in 1960, the streets of New York city turned from festive cheer to chaos when an aviation disaster played out in the skies above. In this week's episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, Stephanie shares the story of two planes headed to two different airports and the tragic chain of events that brought them to the same place at the same time.Listen, Review, and Subscribe on:
Sources consulted for this story:
- CAB: Official Accident Report
- Brooklyn Paper: The day death came from the sky
- New York Times: Park Slope Plane Crash | The Readers Remember
- New York Times: In Remembrance of Sorrow From Other Times
- New York Times: HIGH SPEED LAID TO JET IN CRASH; Inquiry Told Craft Overshot Circle Area at 500 M.P.H HIGH SPEED LAID TO JET IN CRASH
- Gothamist: Memorial Is Unveiled For 1960s Park Slope Plane Crash
- NBC 4 New York: The Worst Aviation Disaster: Remembering the 1960 Collision Over NYC
- Green-Wood: REMEMBERING A DISASTER’S VICTIMS
- New York Times: 50 Years Later, Traces of an Air Crash Linger in Rusty Metal, and Memories
- The Columbus Dispatch: Monument dedicated to victims of 1960 airline disaster
- Brooklyn Library: The 1960 Plane Crash That Rocked Park Slope
- New York Times: Park Slope Plane Crash | A Little Brother Remembers
- Shrouds in the Snow: The Story of the New York City Park Slope Crash by Linda Boris
- NBC New York 4: The Worst Aviation Disaster: Remembering the 1960 Collision Over NYC
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Show Notes:
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Written and produced by: Shelly Price and Stephanie HubkaDirected and engineered at: Snow Monster Studios
Sound editor: Podcast Engineers
Producer: Adam Hubka
Music by: Mike Dunn
Rubble at the corner of Sterling and Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn. Source: Brooklyn Public Library
Crews fight the Park Slope fire. Source: New York Times
The crash site of TWA Flight 266, in Miller Field, Staten Island. Source: Wikipedia
The crash site of United Airlines Flight 826, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Source: Wikipedia
