The 1960 collision between a TWA Constellation and a United Airlines DC-8 over New York ranks as one of this city’s greatest disasters. I was 6-years old at the time and I’ve never forgotten that incident; in fact, I’ve always been haunted by the horrors that went unseen by me. Lacking any existing video documentation of the tragedy, it remained an event buried in history but resurrected in imagination.
This YouTube video does just that. As seen through the eyes of a ten-year old attempting to recreate that tragic day through imagination, the video provides a taste of what it looked like via a documentary-styled simulation. That’s what I’ve been doing for nearly 48 years, but had it confined to the inner-recesses of my own imagination.
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Tags: brooklyn, disaster, historic, staten island
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Posted by 
GrayFoxDown, filed under Big Apple Sauce. Date: May 27, 2008, 5:08 am |
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Thank you for posting this, and for the video. It’s so very moving. So sad. And so needed.