1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash

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59 W Grand St, Elizabeth, NJ 07202, USA

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N40° 40' 0.12" W74° 13' 8.04"   (40.6667, -74.2189) Start navigation »

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On 16 December 1951, a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando airliner crashed in the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, shortly after taking off from nearby Newark Airport. All 56 people on board were killed. At the time, it was the second-deadliest aviation accident on US soil, behind Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501.

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