Jet Clashes In Fiery Ball
Jet Clashes In Fiery Ball
Clip: 429173_1_1
Year Shot: 1963
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1717
Original Film: 036-100-02
HD: N/A
Location: Maryland
Timecode: 00:24:10 - 00:25:12
A plane bound for Philadelphia from Puerto Rico falls during a storm near Elkton, Maryland. Eighty-one persons are killed in the crash that some experts attribute to a bolt of lighting. Maryland Evening and all you see are the silhouettes of rescue workers and firemen walking around a big ball of fire. MS - Camera pans the crash site and there is wreckage strewn all over the place. MS - Three men looking over the crash site. MLS - A small crowd people gathered looking over the crash site, the pieces of the plane are so small that you cannot identify any of the wreckage belonging to a passenger plane.