Some random  facts about the 1960 Airline Crash:

–The crash was the deadliest U.S. commercial aviation disaster of its time.

–All 127 passengers and crew on both planes died.

–7 people died, who were on the ground in Park Slope.

–It was the first time that a black box recorder was used to provide details to crash investigators.

–The little boy who survived the crash for 26 hours was named Stephen Baltz.

–10 brownstone apartment buildings, the Pillar of Fire Church, the McCaddin Funeral Home, a Chinese laundry and a delicatessen burned.

–Hollis Frampton, an experimental filmmaker, was scheduled to be on the United flight, but decided not to return to New York that day to see a retrospective by photographer Edward Weston in Minneapolis. Frampton said of this decision that he was “never…able to decide whether Weston tried to kill me, or saved my life.” (from Wikipedia).