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...those few seconds, La Guardia tower raised the nearby Idlewild airport tower by radio, asked if Idlewild had any aircraft in the vicinity of the TWA's flight path. Replied Idlewild...
...noise that sounded like a "thousand dishes crashing from the sky." As she watched, the TWA Connie, carrying 44 passengers and crewmen, crashed to earth near by. Seconds later, a broken and torn DC-8 jet, which had been United Air Lines' proud Flight 826, bound for Idlewild from Chicago with 84 people, fell out of the sky into Brooklyn...
Both planes had entered the New York area under clearance from Air Route Traffic Control center at Idlewild. In the heavy weather, both had been ordered to follow strict holding patterns while awaiting clearance to land: the TWA Connie at 6,000 ft. over Linden, N.J., south of Newark Airport; the DC-8 at 5,000 ft. in a stacking area over Preston check point, more than five miles south of Linden. As traffic moved, ARTC controllers directed the TWA plane to drop to 5,000 ft. and then, proceeding under control of La Guardia, to swing northeastward into...
...U.A.L. DC-8, directed to circle at Preston, would, when cleared, have normally flown eastward toward Idlewild's ILS glide path. U.A.L. Pilot R. H. Sawyer acknowledged and confirmed his instructions from Air Traffic Control to circle Preston, and his acknowledgment was the 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...
...back to his washtub beside the beige waters of the Congo River. Kanza refused him permission and threatened all sorts of fearsome punishments unless Kinda resumed his job as the delegation's private laundryman. With the help of a kindly New York policeman, Kinda fled to Idlewild airport, got aboard a plane for Paris...