On December 16, 1960, two airplanes had collided in midair over Staten Island. One, a United Airlines DC-8 from Chicago heading to Idlewild (now Kennedy) International Airport, smashed into buildings in Sterling Place, just west of Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn . Apparently many thought a bombing occurred. Above and below I’ve posted informational and documentary accounts of this urban aviation catastrophe, one which oddly I had never heard of until quite recently. You’re welcome.