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...normal to expect that a Noel Coward show will be good. And when the curtain rises above the main hall of the Cunard steam-ship Coronia, the audience is really ready to "sail away." But for five scenes the show is stranded somewhere between the 52nd Street pier and Staten Island, and one begins to wonder whether the good ship Coronia will make it to the high seas...
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...
...pilot had seen the TWA plane and had tried to turn away. The jet's No. 4 engine, the federal men found, crashed through the Connie's cockpit, sucking human tissue into its compressor chamber. The engine was found with the Connie's wreckage on Staten Island...
Panic & Fire. On a street of old brownstone houses in Brooklyn a man looked up and saw "a large bolt of lightning." In a house on Staten Island, across the Narrows from Brooklyn, a housewife heard a 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...
...Over & Over." As the hundreds upon hundreds of rescue workers fought their way courageously through the smoking disaster, others were converging on Staten Island's tiny Miller Field, an Army helicopter and small-plane airport. The TWA Constellation had fallen on the edge of the field, a slim 150 ft. beyond a residential section and two schools. "It went down in a terrible way," said one woman, "one wing gone-and it turned over and over very slowly." Seat-belted bodies were flung everywhere. An Army squad arrived in trucks, played extinguishers on burning bodies, crawled into the wreckage...