On This Day in Aviation History: December 16th

[NYCA News]

NYCAviation:

On This Day in Aviation History: December 16th (http://nycaviation.com/2010/12/on-this-day-in-aviation-history-december-16th/)

A midair collision of a United DC-8 and TWA Constellation over New York City in 1960, Concorde makes first Atlantic crossing in under 3 hours in 1979, an Air Canada CRJ crashes in 1997 and the first turbine-powered helicopter takes to the air in 1951.
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[LGA777]

Spent a very moving morning in Park Slope yesterday, including the exact moment of the crash 50 years earlier, very somber experience that I am really glad I did & will never forget. Highlight for me thanks to the friend of a friend of a friend was getting to actually hold several pieces of the doomed DC-8, including about a 5 x 3 foot piece of upper wing that included a fuel cap, amazing!

[Matt Molnar]

Did you happen to snap any pics of the new memorial?

[LGA777]

Sorry Gotham, did not make it the ceremony at the cemetery, chose to stay on the neighborhood with friends. No disrespect to nycaviation which was just probably using a link, but the article contains at least 3 major errors.

[Matt Molnar]

What are they? I will fix.

[LGA777]

Thanks Gotham, the reg was N8013U, article says 8031U, typo I'm sure.

The TWA plane, enroute to LaGuardia Airport from Columbus, Ohio, was broadsided by the Super Connie
The TWA plane was the Super Connie, it was actually broadsided by the DC-8.

an 11-year-old boy named Stephen Baltz, survived the initial impact but succumbed to his injuries later that day.
Stephen actually lived thru the night and died the next day.

Nice story here on the unveiling yesterday !

http://origin.ny1.com/content/top_stories/130719/ceremony-marks-50th-anniversary-of-plane-crash

LGA777

[moose135]

I was hanging with a friend in Brooklyn today, and since we were going to be about mile from Green-Wood Cemetery, I stopped at the memorial.

http://moose135.smugmug.com/New-York-City/Green-Wood-Cemetary/JM20101219Greenwood001/1131829995_9uEYX-L.jpg

The wreath from Thursday's dedication is still in place. In the background between the wreath and the memorial, you can see a second wreath. That marks the grave of unidentified remains from the crash.

http://moose135.smugmug.com/New-York-City/Green-Wood-Cemetary/JM20101219Greenwood002/1131830257_FEFNP-L.jpg

http://moose135.smugmug.com/New-York-City/Green-Wood-Cemetary/JM20101219Greenwood005/1131842392_vypug-L.jpg

http://moose135.smugmug.com/New-York-City/Green-Wood-Cemetary/JM20101219Greenwood006/1131831553_VKcfR-L.jpg

On the rear of the monument is a brass plaque listing the names of all those lost in the crash.

http://moose135.smugmug.com/New-York-City/Green-Wood-Cemetary/JM20101219Greenwood004/1131831049_PzXG7-L.jpg