New York - Boeing Disaster

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1709A
Date Released
8 Mar 1962
Date submitted
5 Mar 1962
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1New York - Boeing Disaster
  2. 2Australia’s Challenger
  3. 3Design for Living
  4. 4A Flyweight Worth Watching
  5. 5The Gentle Sex?

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Boeing Disaster. DESCRIPTION: Two minutes after leaving the airport, a few miles from New York, a 707 Astrojet belonging to American Airlines, plunged into the marshland bordering the bay. Wreckage was strewn over a wide area. So complete was the disaster, that not one of the 87 passengers and 8 crew members survived. SHOTLIST: Key scene. MLS boat. MLS plane. MS wreckage. MS men looking around wreckage. (2 shots) wreckage. MS men looking around. MS men looking around. MS men taking injured away (2 shots). MS people in ambulance. GV wreckage.
Keywords
Aviation; Accidents and disasters
Locations
United States of America
Footage sources
United States of America
Card file number
83999
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
83
Story extras:
Film clip

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