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Air Tragedy: Trans-Ocean Liner Crash Fatal to 26

Air Tragedy: Trans-Ocean Liner Crash Fatal to 26
Clip: 513138_1_1
Year Shot: 1954 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1606
Original Film: 027-632
HD: N/A
Location: New York, New York
Timecode: 00:37:41 - 00:39:17

Air Tragedy: Trans-Ocean Liner Crash Fatal to 26. At Idlewild Airport(JFK Airport), an Alitalia (Italian Airline Company) Douglas DC-6 airplane crashed into the water and exploded. Twenty-six people were killed. Shots of the burning wreckage in the water. Pan over to people watching from a pier. Police and firemen load a dead body into ambulance/hearse. Searchers look at the devastation. Pan from wreckage at the shore(a seat?) to searchers looking through other wreckage. A man uses a hooked pole to drag a piece of wreckage ashore. People throw found luggage into a pile. Two shots of various luggage. A diver enters the water to search underwater. A group of people watch from a pier as a piece of the plane is raised from the water. Men help maneuver the big piece of plane wreckage. People examine the wreckage. Searchers recover another body and it is passed from the boat to the shore. Shot of crane and people at the wreckage.