Park Slope Plane Crash, City Room (The New York Times local news blog), Sunday, December 12âThursday, December 16, 2010 â A series of articles about the aviation disaster. Courtesy William A. Baltz Stephen Baltz in 1956. The crash killed all 84 people aboard Flight 826 and 44 on Flight 266 as well as six people on the ground. Park Slope Plane Crash | The Boy Who Fell From the Sky. Discover Park Slope Plane Crash in Brooklyn, New York: One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn. At the time, the Park Slope Plane Crash, as it came to be known, was the U.S.âs deadliest commercial aviation accident. The 1960 New York mid-air collision, also known as the Park Slope Plane Crash, was a strange mid-air collision between two large airliners that occurred over New York City on Friday, 16 December 1960. ⦠On Dec. 16, 1960, two airliners collided in midair over New York City, killing 128 people, including six on the ground in Park Slope, Brooklyn. On December 16, 1960, United Flight 826 and TWA Flight 266 collided over Staten Island, New York. By David W. Dunlap December 16, 2010 11:49 am December 16, 2010 11:49 am. The crash, which occurred at Fifth Avenue and Fifth ⦠CNN photo gallery of the crash; Deadly Brooklyn Plane Crash, 1960 â slideshow by Life magazine; Pillar of Fire â Interview with Dorothy M. Fletcher by Nathaniel Altman America met Stephen L. Baltz on Dec. 16, 1960, held him in a collective embrace for a day and then, grieving, let him go. Nine days before Christmas, Sterling Place in Brooklyn's Park Slope was brightening with the wreaths that had begun to adorn the doorways of the ⦠Ronna McDaniel: RNC chair ⦠5 Hurt In Multi-Vehicle Crash In Park Slope Syndicated Local â CBS New York 2/21/2020. Surveillance video shows the chilling moment that a car fatally struck two small children in the stroller-mom enclave of Park Slope on Monday. US records 200K daily cases. The 1960 New York mid-air collision, also known as the Park Slope Plane Crash, was a mid-air collision between two airliners that occurred over New York City on Friday, 16 December 1960. The United plane, while attempting an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport, crashed into the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Five people were hospitalized following a multi-car pile-up in Park Slope on Thursday night. Fallout from a Plane Crash.