Sterling Place (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
On the morning of December 16, 1960, a TWA Lockheed Constellation plane and a United Airlines, a DC-8, collided in a blinding snowstorm over New York. At the time of the accident it was considered the worst aviation disaster in the history of commercial...
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On the morning of December 16, 1960, a TWA Lockheed Constellation plane and a United Airlines, a DC-8, collided in a blinding snowstorm over New York. At the time of the accident it was considered the worst aviation disaster in the history of commercial flying. When it was over, one hundred and twenty eight people from both planes, plus six on the ground had lost their lives. After the collision the Connie broke into three parts, hurling forty-four people to their death. The plane or what was left of it, crashed in the fields of the Miller Army Base, in Staten Island, New York. The other plane, United Flight 826, with eighty-four people crashed eight miles from impact coming down on an intersection called Seventh Avenue, and Sterling Place, a quiet community in the Park Slope Section of Brooklyn. On May 9th 1962, the Civil Aeronautic Board determined that the probable cause of this accident was that United Flight 826 proceeded beyond its clearance limit and the confines of the airspace to the flight given by Air Traffic Control, passing its holding pattern and therefore, ramming into TWA Flight 266. I wasn't totally convinced. In 1998, I decided to investigate, the probable cause of the collision, and why it happened, but most important, if it could have been prevented. My investigation revealed that while Captain Robert H. Sawyer went beyond his allocated airspace, he did not stand alone in the blame. The results were very disturbing, the collision could have been prevented. The book reveals who was at fault, why there was a cover-up, and by whom.
Autoren-Porträt von Ray Garcia
Raymond Garcia was born in Puerto Rico and hemigrated to the United States with his parents in 1957.
They quickly settled on 109th Street in the Borough of
Manhattan, New York, known as "El Barrio".
Later that year, the family moved to Jacob Riis Projects,
a housing complex located on the lower-east side of
New York, in Manhattan, where Raymond attended
Public School 64, and Robert E. Simon Junior High
School. His fascination with airplanes led him to
Aviation High School in Queens New York.
In 1962 Raymond took his fi rst plane ride in a Cessna 150 Trainer out of Morristown
New Jersey, and immediately became hooked. His love for Aviation is special, and
has remained the same since 1962. He has logged a number of hours of fl ight time
since then, in single and multi-engine aircrafts. Today, Raymond is retired from
flying, but still gets excited seeing a plane taking off, or landing.
After living most of his life in the Big Apple, Raymond moved to Connecticut in
1994, where he resides today with his wife, Sandra.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ray Garcia
- 2010, 192 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Xlibris US
- ISBN-10: 1450021999
- ISBN-13: 9781450021999
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.02.2010
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