News; Brooklyn Plane Crash
- Series
- News
- Episode
- Brooklyn Plane Crash
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/80-203xt3tj
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- Description
- Description
- Reports of an American Airlines plane crashing into a residential area in Brooklyn and resulted in large fire covering several blocks. Includes reporters phoning in with updates, interviews with officials, and phone interviews with witnesses, including a Catholic priest. Reporter presents updated report, noting that the plane crashed into the Pillar of Fire Church, completely destroying it, he reports that the plane held 77 passengers and that there have been "tens" of reported deaths. Report of a young boy, Stephen Baltz, who survived the crash, as well as another man who was badly burned. The reported compares the scene of the crash to a war zone. He notes that it was fortunate the plane did not hit two gasoline stations next to the church that was demolished, as the fire and destruction would have been much worse. Twenty minutes later another report on the status of the fire, which has subsided considerably but has been raised to a Borough alarm fire. For the 50th anniversary of the crash, The New York Times wrote a series of articles about the event: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/park-slope-plane-crash-the-lede-all/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/park-slope-plane-crash-how-it-happened/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/the-boy-who-fell-from-the-sky/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/park-slope-plane-crash-a-little-brother-remembers/ http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/park-slope-plane-crash-sights-and-sounds/
- Date
- 1960-12-16
- Genres
- News Report
- Topics
- News
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:09:22
- Credits
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- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 69319.1 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Dub
Duration: 00:09:22
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 69319.2 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Dub
Duration: 00:06:42
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 69319.3 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
Format: Data CD
Generation: Dub
Duration: 00:16:53
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- Citations
- Chicago: “News; Brooklyn Plane Crash,” 1960-12-16, WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 21, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-203xt3tj.
- MLA: “News; Brooklyn Plane Crash.” 1960-12-16. WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 21, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-203xt3tj>.
- APA: News; Brooklyn Plane Crash. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-203xt3tj