65 years ago today, on December 16, 1960 (October 28, 1960, the lunar calendar), two passenger planes collided over New York. On December 16, 1960, two passenger planes flying in thick fog, rain and snow collided over New York City, killing all 127 passengers and crew on board. The other five people were killed when one of the colliding planes crashed in Brooklyn, causing a magnitude 7 fire. This was the most horrific disaster in American history. One of the two passenger jets that collided took off from Chicago with 77 passengers and seven crew members on board, an American Airlines jet. The other was a TWA Lockheed SuperConstellation aircraft that flew in from Columbus, Ohio. There were 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board. The only survivor was an 11-year-old boy on board an American Airlines jet. He survived being thrown out of the wrecked plane and landed on a snowy hill. The American Airlines jet crashed on a crowded Gongtong Slope in Brooklyn, destroying a church and setting fire to fuel in its fuel tank, setting flames nearby. The TWA passenger plane crashed 11 miles southeast of Staidan Island. It avoided several houses by a few hundred feet. On January 15, 2009, a US passenger plane made a forced landing on the river surface of New York On January 15, 2009, passengers stood on the wings of the Hudson River in New York, USA, waiting for rescue. Rescued passengers were leaving the river plane in a hovercraft. Rescuers rescued passengers standing on the wing. On the afternoon of January 15, 2009 EST, a US Airways passenger plane crashed in the air, damaging all its twin engines. The plane eventually made a forced landing on the Hudson River in New York, leaving all 151 people on board alive. The suspected cause of the accident was that the aircraft was hit by a flock of birds.