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The Fears of Elizabeth

Plane Tales

English - March 12, 2018 02:03 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 143 ratings
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Air travel is, statistically, the very safest form of transport but it wasn't always that way.  Imagine living in Elizabeth, a suburb near New York's Newark airport in 1951 when, within a period of only 3 months, aircraft began raining from the sky onto your neighborhood.

 

The crash site of Flight 1678M.

 

An American Airways Convair CV240.

 

A National Airways CD6.

 

The City of Elizabeth today.

 

 

Images under Creative Commons licence, US Gov Bureau of Aircraft Accidents, Dagrecco, Jon Proctor, Bill Larkins.

Air travel is, statistically, the very safest form of transport but it wasn’t always that way.  Imagine living in Elizabeth, a suburb near New York’s Newark airport in 1951 when, within a period of only 3 months, aircraft began raining from the sky onto your neighborhood.


 


The crash site of Flight 1678M.


 


An American Airways Convair CV240.


 


A National Airways CD6.


 


The City of Elizabeth today.


 


 


Images under Creative Commons licence, US Gov Bureau of Aircraft Accidents, Dagrecco, Jon Proctor, Bill Larkins.