Video: 'New York Mid-Air Collision'

(Friday, December 16, 1960, 10:37 a.m. EST; during the 1960 New York mid-air collision) — A United Airlines Douglas DC-8, bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending into the city’s LaGuardia Airport today in fog and sleet, killing all 128 people on the two aircraft and six people on the ground.

The Constellation crashed on a vacant area at the Miller Field U.S. Army base on Staten Island and the DC-8 crashed in Brooklyn at the intersection of 7th Avenue and Sterling Place.

Stephen Baltz, 11, of Wilmette, Illinois, was pulled conscious from the DC-8 wreckage, but died the next day.