| Chicago Midway Air Port Crash - 22 Perish | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1608 |
| Catalog #: | 353514 | |
| Clip Number: | 353514-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 028-692-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:30:09 - 00:30:56 | |
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois | |
| Year Shot: | 1955 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Air Crashes DISASTERS: Victims LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Illinois, Chicago TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Passenger | |
| Description: | Audio is low on screener Tragedy at Chicago's Midway Air Port. A gasoline neon sign was a sign of doom was clipped by a transport flight making a low instrument landing approach. Overturning the plane which plunged into the ground with 43 souls aboard. The plane skidded 1/2 a mile within a few hundred feet of the air ports forestation. Flaming gasoline was extinguished within 3 minutes. The terrible impact took a heavy toll. 22 of the 43 were killed and no survivor escaped injury. Establishing shot - Mid-Way Air Port and the sign that was hit by the plane. MSWA - The wreckage of the plane, the tail section is in plain view. CUS - The wreckage of the up-side-down plane, front landing down, rescue team. CUS - Rescue workers chopping to get inside the plane. CUS - Two covered dead bodies, souls. CUS - Surviving passenger taken away on a stretcher. CUS - Man being loaded into an ambulance. | |
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