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Private Plane Hits Radio Tower Crashes Into Apartment House
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keywords: tragedies, aircraft crash, apartment complex damage
Synopsis: A twin-engine private plane attempting a dusk landing at a nearby airport crashes into an 800ft television tower as it leave a wing embedded into the town up impact before spiraling into an apartment complex seven blocks away with the pilot, plane owner and two tenets of at the apartment complex perish with 17 injured and forced an evacuation of the area until the tower, weakened by the crash can be secured in the short term and prepared for removal in its entirety...(read more)
- Date: 1956
- Duration: 00:00:59
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Private Plane Hits Radio Tower Crashes Into Apartment House
4 perish and 17 are injured when a private plane hits an 800 foot radio tower in New Jersey and spins down into an apartment house. More than a hundred dwellers in the house were menaced by flaming gasoline and flying wreckage.
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- Newsreels: 1956 - November 12
