Mid-Air Collision Over Staten Island

Date: December 16, 1960 • Location: Oakwood, United States

A United Air Lines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground.

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