On December 16, 1960, a United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport. [1]

The Douglas DC-8 (sometimes McDonnell Douglas DC-8) is an early long-range narrow-body jetliner designed and produced by the American Douglas Aircraft Company. Work began in 1952 towards the United States Air Force's (USAF) requirement for …

2024年12月16日 · United Air Lines Flight 826 was a Douglas DC-8-11, serial number 45920, registered N8013U. It was delivered to United 22 December 1959. The airliner had flown 2,434 hours TTAF, and 42 hours since overhaul. The DC-8 carried a Waste King Flight Recorder, from which significant data was recovered by crash investigators.

On the morning of December 16, 1960, United Airlines Flight 826, a Douglas DC-8, collided with Trans World Airlines Flight 266, a Lockheed L1049 Super Constellation. The TWA aircraft crashed at Miller Airfield on Staten Island. The United DC-8, however, continued several miles to the northeast and impacted the ground in Brooklyn.

Following is a list of accidents and incidents involving Douglas DC-8s from its introduction to commercial service, in September 1959, through the present. United Air Lines Flight 826, a DC-8-11 (named Mainliner Will Rogers) collided over Staten Island, New York City with TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed Constellation (named Star of Sicily). [1] .

2010年12月15日 · The Dec. 16, 1960, crash of a United jet and a TWA propeller plane was the worst aviation disaster to date, killing 134 people, including 128 people on both planes.

TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed Constellation, departed Port Columbus Airport at 09:00 bound for New York-LaGuardia Airport. Around the same time, at 09:11, United Air Lines Flight 826 departed Chicago O'Hare Airport. The flight was carried out by DC-8 N8013U and was bound for New York-Idlewild Airport.

United Airlines Flight 826 was a flight that collided with TWA Flight 266 on December 16, 1960. No one survived. The accident became known as the Park Slope plane crash or the Miller Field crash, named after the two crash sites. [1] The accident was the first hull loss and the first fatal accident involving a Douglas DC-8. [2] [3]

Rarely seen A&E documentary concerning the infamous collision over New York on December 16, 1960, between a UAL DC-8 & TWA Connie. For educational & non comm...

2009年11月13日 · It was a snowy morning in New York when a United DC-8 from Chicago was heading for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in southern Queens. At the same time, a TWA Super...