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The Fears of Elizabeth
FromPlane Tales
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Length:
18 minutes
Released:
Mar 12, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Air travel is, statistically, the very safest form of transport but it wasn't always that way. Imagine living in Elizabeth, a suburb near New York's Newark airport in 1951 when, within a period of only 3 months, aircraft began raining from the sky onto your neighborhood.
Images under Creative Commons licence, US Gov Bureau of Aircraft Accidents, Dagrecco, Jon Proctor, Bill Larkins.
Images under Creative Commons licence, US Gov Bureau of Aircraft Accidents, Dagrecco, Jon Proctor, Bill Larkins.
Released:
Mar 12, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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