Planes Collide: Pilots' Skill Avoids Major Disaster
Planes Collide: Pilots' Skill Avoids Major Disaster
Two airliners ram into each other just north of New York City & there begins a miracle of pilot skill that saves the lives of 108 people out of the 112 aboard the two planes. One craft, a jet, flies safely into Kennedy airport, 50 miles away, w/ 20 feet of wing missing. The other is crash-landed by Captain Charles J. White, in a stupendous feat of maneuvering, on a hillside in Westchester County. Captain White died in the cabin while making sure all of his passengers had been evacuated. MSs - Sheared wing; 20 feet MS - Pilot & flight attendant gazing upon damage; MS - Relatively minor damage to jet engine. TLS/MSs - Burned-out, smoldering wreckage of commercial plane in Westchester County. CUS - One of the engines face down on the ground. CUS - Part of the fuselage. CU - Just the steel outlining the passengers seats. MS - It's reported that 108 people lived through this horrendous crash.