Rescuers on Sunday night worked carefully to extricate the two people on board, after 117,000 were at one point without power. Photos showed the plane entangled in power lines. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Aviation Accidents, Safety and Disasters”
‘Into the Woods’ and a Missing Giant’s Boot
By Gotham Rex on July 27, 2022
When the Stephen Sondheim musical opened in 1987, a huge boot hung over the theater’s facade. The producers of the current revival would love to get it back. Source: New York Times
The Shakespearean Tall Tale That Shaped How We See Starlings
By Gotham Rex on April 11, 2022
Researchers debunked a long-repeated yarn that the common birds owe their North American beginnings to a 19th-century lover of the Bard. Maybe this ubiquitous bird’s story is ready for a reboot. Source: New York Times
No Charges for Passenger Who Prompted La Guardia Emergency Landing
By Gotham Rex on October 10, 2021
A spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the authorities determined that there was “no criminality” involved in the landing. Source: New York Times
James Kallstrom Dies at 78; Led F.B.I. Review of T.W.A. Crash
By Gotham Rex on July 8, 2021
As the F.B.I. chief in New York, he spent 16 months investigating why Flight 800 crashed 12 minutes after takeoff, killing all 230 people on board. Source: New York Times
Wreckage of T.W.A. Flight 800 to Be Destroyed Years After Explosion
By Gotham Rex on February 25, 2021
The National Transportation Safety Board said it no longer needed to use a reconstruction of the plane brought down in one of the deadliest crashes in U.S. history. Source: New York Times
3 Die in National Guard Helicopter Crash Near Rochester
By Gotham Rex on January 20, 2021
The helicopter, which was on a routine training mission, crashed in a field. The cause of the accident is under investigation. Source: New York Times
Queens Seaplane Crash Kills One and Seriously Injures Two
By Gotham Rex on October 4, 2020
The plane, “traveling rather fast along the water, skipped twice and hit the pier,” the New York fire commissioner said. Source: New York Times
Steve Barnes, of Cellino & Barnes Law Firm, Dies in Plane Crash
By Gotham Rex on October 2, 2020
Mr. Barnes, one half of the personal injury firm known for its infectious jingle, was flying a small plane when it crashed in upstate New York, killing him and a passenger. Source: New York Times
8 People Believed Dead After Planes Collide and Crash Into Idaho Lake
By Gotham Rex on July 6, 2020
All 8 passengers and crew members on both planes are believed to have died, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office in Kootenai County. Source: New York Times