Classic LGA Shot for the Rotorheads

[cancidas]

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simply beautiful!

[PhilDernerJr]

Very cool shot. Where at LGA is that?

Does anyone know the other route that they flew? It couldn't have been only that Pan Am route since the airline started service in 1949, and the Pan Am building was not built until 1955.

Anyone know what the incident was, too?

[Gerard]

Very cool shot. Where at LGA is that?
Does anyone know the other route that they flew? It couldn't have been only that Pan Am route since the airline started service in 1949, and the Pan Am building was not built until 1955.
Anyone know what the incident was, too?

The S-61 incident? That was May of 1977 when the landing gear collapsed on the roof of the PanAm building killing 4 there and
another on the street from falling debris.
BTW ever see "Coogans Bluff"? Great footage in the beginning of Clint Eastwood arriving on that roof pad in a NY Airways
Boeing Vertol 107. That was 1968.
If you go to Wikipedia and put in "New York Airways" they have info/pics.

[cancidas]

glad to see i'm not the only gear-head here...