Robert Reynolds: 504 books

The crash of a DC6 in broad daylight with excellent flying conditions was a puzzle to bystanders in the Pocono Mountain region of Pennsylvania as well as investigators who probed the reasons for the plane crash on June 17, 1948. The plane contained a fatal flaw that led to loss of 43 lives on United...

Continental Airlines was in business for 28 years before it incurred its first airline fatalities. This happened near the border of Iowa and Missouri on the night of May 22, 1962. The plane was flying into a line of thunderstorms and received a warning as it neared its landing at Kansas City Municipal...

Pan American-Grace Airlines formed in 1928. It combined Pan Am and W.R. Grace & Co. The latter was already a formidable cultural force in Peru as early as the 1920s. On July 16, 1932 a Pan Am-Grace Ford Tri-Motor airliner, the San Jose, disappeared in the Andes Mountains near Santiago, Chile....

An American Airlines Convair 240 on its way from Boston to Chicago became the first air tragedy in the Albany, New York capitol area. The disaster was due in part to fog that would not lift on the morning of the crash. The plane ran into two separate radio towers after the pilot made an incorrect...

A United Airlines DC4 airliner crashed soon after attempting to abort a takeoff at LaGuardia Airport the day before Memorial Day in 1947. On the plane included a former lieutenant on his way to wed his fiancee in Cleveland. There was also a young woman destined to visit her parents who had an important...

A United Airlines turboprop commercial airliner crashed in clear weather near Parrottsville, Tennessee on July 9, 1964. Observers noticed a trail of smoke coming from beneath the plane as it flew low over the rural Tennessee mountains. The Viscount 745D smashed directly into a hillside before it exploded...

The Standard Airliner that crashed on approach to Burbank, California on July 11, 1949 was an unscheduled New York to California flight. The Curtiss Wright C-46 crashed after beginning its descent into a cloud bank. A subsequent hearing held by the Civil Aeronautics Board considered pilot error as...

A midair collision occurred near National Airport in Washington, DC on November 1, 1949. A P38 World War II plane and a commercial airliner came together when a Bolivian pilot in the P38 either did not hear air traffic controllers, or failed to respond to their commands. The crash left 53 persons...

A Piedmont Airlines Fairchild-Hiller 227B crashed on its approach to Kanawha Airport in Charlestown, West Virginia on August 10, 1968. In what became Piedmont's final plane crash, 35 people were killed including the flight crew and all but two passengers. The airliner was flying into a dense...

A United Airlines DC-3 plunged into San Francisco Bay on February 9, 1937. For more than a month the cause of the tragedy that killed 11 people remained a mystery. Then an American Airlines DC-3 experienced a problem that aviation experts linked to the DC-3 mystery in the Bay area. This finding was...

A Flying Tiger turboprop flying east missed a runway near Burbank, California on the night of December 15, 1962. The aircraft was carrying four crew members, one passenger and toys it had obtained on a trip to Boston. Visibility was severely impeded by fog. Crashing into a neighborhood of residences...

The crash of a Lockheed Electra L-188C near Tell City, Indiana was the third major disaster involving the Electras to occur within a year's time. The Electra was a propeller plane that possessed the speed of a jet and had considerable power. The Tell City crash was pivotal for after this the...

The Potomac River, near where Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland come together, was where the bodies of two young women, ages 16 and 18, were recovered in mid June 1956. The girls disappeared in early June.. They were last seen getting into a blue Ford while waiting for a bus in Beltsville, Maryland....

Waxey Gordon's beer empire extended throughout upstate New York, into Pennsylvania and to several New Jersey counties. It even reached as far as St. Louis and Chicago in the midwest. Gordon was raised in a tenement on Manhattan's East Side. He grew up thudding and became a pickpocket. He...