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...approached the Preston holding area in New Jersey (see map), sped through Preston on instruments at speeds as high as 360 knots (v. standard jet holding speed of 220 knots). At that speed, it closed the distance between Preston and the instrument traffic approach for La Guardia Airport in i min., 51 sec. And at that speed, at an altitude of 5,400 ft., it collided with TWA's Super Constellation Flight 266, from Dayton and Columbus, approaching La Guardia Airport under instructions from the La Guardia tower...
Meanwhile, La Guardia tower was following the Constellation on its radar, radioed one warning of "traffic at two-thirty, six miles northeast bound," and then another of "what appears to be jet traffic off your right now, 3 o'clock at one mile northeast bound." The only response from the Connie, after the second warning, was the sound of an open microphone; the rest was silence...
Dribbling Blip. In the heat-charged moments that followed, Idlewild and La Guardia radio crackled away at each other, trying desperately to locate the Connie that had suddenly disappeared from the radarscopes over Staten Island and to identify the strange "unknown plane" that was dribbling as a blip across Brooklyn on the scopes...
...last contact Idlewild ever got. Since the planes collided in a spot on the Connie's path-a good ten miles or so north of the jet's allotted position-it seemed likely that the jet had somehow flown beyond its orbiting area into the La Guardia approach. Why Pilot Sawyer did so-whether as a result of instrument failure or human error (one radio was out of commission, but he had a usable spare)-may never be known...
Strip &; Gibbon. One significant fact is that the whole spectacle is anything but wicked. Burlesque has never come back since La Guardia, and the strip joints are more pathetic than inflammatory-particularly since Strip Row on West 52nd Street was closed down in deference to all the big new office skyscrapers and remote Greenwich Village has become almost the last outpost of the skin trade...