1960 New York Air Disaster - Aircraft

Aircraft

United Airlines Flight 826, Mainliner Will Rogers, registration N8013U, was a Douglas DC-8 carrying 84 people en route from O'Hare Airport in Chicago to New York International (Idlewild) Airport (now John F. Kennedy International) in Howard Beach, Queens.

Trans World Airlines Flight 266, Star of Sicily, registration N6907C, was a Lockheed Super Constellation carrying 44 people en route from Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, to New York's LaGuardia Airport.

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