Word: newark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pride. Even people who didn't care to ride in planes enjoyed watching them land and reflecting that their city had not been bypassed by the air age. Greater New York was no exception; it was as proud of those raucous, air-age beehives, La Guardia, Idlewild and Newark Airports, as of the sight of the Queen Mary sliding majestically up the Hudson...
Twice in eight weeks, Elizabeth, N.J. heard the thunder of an exploding airplane, and rushed to the streets to pick up the dead. The planes, one taking off, the other landing at nearby Newark Airport, crashed in the heart of the city, killing 79 passengers and six of Elizabeth's citizens. City officials blamed the airport for routing the planes over their homes, demanded that the field be shut down. The Port of New York Authority announced that it was rushing work on a new runway that would shunt most of the traffic away from Elizabeth...
...Stewardess Nancy Taylor, checking her passenger lists in the rear of the plane, heard an engine cough, begin to sputter, then die: "It made a terrible rumbling sound." The plane nosed downward. The radio at Newark Tower crackled out a message: "Is everything all right?" The pilot replied: "I lost an engine. Am coming back...
...stewardess was the only survivor of the crew of four. Amazingly, 36 of the 59 passengers got out alive. Four residents of the apartment house were killed. The Port of New York Authority closed down Newark Airport, one of the nation's busiest and best, to consider what fate and mechanical failures had done...
Behind Schedule. At 3:41, Captain Reid had his plane at 1,500 ft. over Linden, N.J., letting down to the northeast toward Newark Airport. He had been cleared for an instrument approach to Runway 6, had reported that he was receiving instructions from the control tower "loud and clear." The snow had melted into light rain. The ceiling was down to 400 ft. and visibility was poor...