A Miami Airlines Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando airliner crashes in Elizabeth, New Jersey. View of the wrecked Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando aircraft. People stand near the wreckage. Men take out injured and dead passengers from the wrecked aircraft. The wrecked parts of aircraft scattered in Elizabeth River. People near the accident area. A damaged house. A fire brigade drives on a road. People on a street. The C-46 wrecked parts.
View of the overhead crossing of the Pennsylvania and Jersey Central railroads at Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Express on the Jersey Central passes underneath at full speed, just before a train passes overhead on the Pennsylvania crossing. (Filmed by Edison Company, 1897)
Major catastophe events of the year 1952. Views of destruction on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after American Airlines flight 6780, a Convair 240, crashed into a house at Williamson and South Streets on January 22, 1952. Burned wreckage and devastation seen at the crash site in Elizabeth following the crash and subsequent explosions damaging or destroying multipole houses in the 600 block of Williamson Street. In the first few seconds of the clip, the Battin High School for Girls is seen in the background. The school was adjacent to the crash but not hit. Narrator also describes the crash of an Army transport plane in California which killed 86 soldiers, but no images of that crash are shown. Next scenes shift to England, on September 6, 1952, as a de Havilland DH.110 jet aircraft, piloted by John Derry, explodes in midair after achieving Mach 1 and then beginning a left bank and climb at 450 knots during the 1952 Farnborough Airshow. Spectators at the British air show are seen on the ground in the area below the explosion and where debris rained down on the crowd causing deaths and injuries. Engines from the blown-up DH.110 plane (prototype, ID WG236) are seen hurtling through the sky toward Observation Hill immediately after the mid-air explosion. Scenes show crowd working to tend to the wounded and shocked families and children crying.
Major events of the year 1951. A disastrous railroad train accident in New Jersey, United States claims 85 lives. Derailed train and wreckage on the ground after the accident. Dead body. Swollen rivers cause devastating floods in Kansas and Missouri killing 40 people and rendering many homeless. People wade through flood waters. Houses and cars submerged in water.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gromyko attend conference in New York. Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth reaches New York. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko arrives on Queen Elizabeth to attend Japanese Peace Conference at San Francisco. The Minister says that Russia has plans of her own for peace talks. Photographers take pictures. Reporters shoot the event.
Wind swept forest fire destroys thousands of acres of woods near the Atlantic City in New Jersey, United States. Fire fighters work day and night to fight the blazing forest inferno.
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