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1959 Worst Airline Disaster

On December 16th two airliners collided over the skies of Brooklyn. The two aircraft invovled were a United DC-8 and a TWA Constellation. There was only one survivor. The DC 8 was scheduled to land at Idelwild while the Constellation was on its way to La Guardia Airport.