{"id":24804,"date":"2019-07-13T06:47:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24804"},"modified":"2019-07-14T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T14:54:10","slug":"did-you-know-about-these-air-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24804","title":{"rendered":"Did you know about these air crashes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week, I saw a really good play titled “Napoli, Brooklyn”<\/em> which featured an air crash. Only when I went on the Net did I find that the crash really happened. If you’re an American reader of this blog, did you know about the incident<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, 16 December 1960, a United Airlines<\/a>Douglas DC-8<\/a>, bound for Idlewild Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport<\/a>) in New York City<\/a>, collided with a TWA<\/a>Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation<\/a> descending into the city’s LaGuardia Airport<\/a>. One plane crashed on Staten Island<\/a>, the other into Park Slope<\/a>, Brooklyn, killing all 128 people on both aircraft and six people on the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This theatrical experience made me think about a time when there was a similar air crash close to my home city of Manchester. If you’re a British reader of my blog, did you know about this incident<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Stockport air disaster occurred on 4 June 1967, when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut<\/a> passenger aircraft owned by British Midland Airways<\/a> crashed near the centre of Stockport<\/a>, Cheshire, England. Of the 84 people on board, 72 were killed. It was the fourth-worst accident in British aviation history.[<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"