Shrouds in the Snow

Book excerpt: On December 16, 1960, less than a week before Christmas, a United Air Lines jet and TWA passenger plane collided over Staten Island, New York. The TWA Super Constellation fell to the ground in Staten Island and the United jet. fatally damaged, limped on into the skies over Brooklyn, finally crashing to earth at a busy intersection in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. This is the story of those flights, and the disaster than ensued. Culled from contemporaneous accounts, later day interviews and recollections, and official reports, the story puts the reader there on the spot, when it happened and throughout the aftermath. Though almost 60 years ago, the human factors, reactions, and emotions, endure and in fact are timeless.