THE PLANE CRASH OF OLGIATE OLONA (ITALY) OF JUNE 26, 1959

 

Chronicle Starliner L-1649A Witnesses Documents and press news

 

Documents and press news

 

The plane crash in the parish Liber Chronicus in the summary of don Aldo Zecchin, parson of Olgiate Olona


Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) report of the plane crash of June 26, 1959


International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) report of the plane crash of June 26, 1959

Documents related to the plane crash

 

June 17, 2010

 

The unpublished historical truth: Albert John Palmer and Percy Charles Nicholls were never identified

 

October 1961 - International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

 

Circular 62-AN/57 - Aircraft Accident Digest No. 11 - Report No. 36, Trans World Airlines, Lockheed Super Constellation 1649-A, N 7313C

 

November 15, 1960 - Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)

 

Aircraft accident report - Trans World Airlines L-1649A, U.S. Registry N-7313C, near Milan, Italy, June 26, 1959

 

August 11, 1959

 

Report of Olgiate Olona mayor Carlo Ferrari during the town Council (resolution No. 119)

 

Olgiate Olona Council resolution No. 119b on the compensation for the municipal employees

 

July 3, 1959 - Senate of the Italian Republic

 

158th public session - Stenographic report (excerpt)

 

July 2, 1959

 

Report of Olgiate Olona mayor Carlo Ferrari sent to Varese Prefecture

 

July 1, 1959 - Senate of the Italian Republic

 

156th public session - Stenographic report (excerpt)

 

June 29, 1959: funerals in Busto Arsizio

 

Summary of the event as reported in the Almanacco della famiglia bustocca

 

June 26, 1959: plane crash

 

The destiny of the personal belongings of the seventy immortal lives

 

June 26, 1959: plane crash

 

Summary of Olgiate Olona parson Don Aldo Zecchin in parish Liber Chronicus

 

June 26, 1959: plane crash

 

Translation of La fatalità (the fate) article of Dino Buzzati published in Corriere della sera newspaper of June 27, 1959

 

June 26, 1959: plane crash

 

Elio Sparano‘s commentary on the footage of the plane crash aired by RAI

 

TWA Flight No. 891/26 of June 26, 1959

 

Reconstruction of the flight up to the moment of the crash - Summary of witness testimony

 

TWA Flight No. 891/26 of June 26, 1959

 

Board of Inquiry - Characteristics of the plane crash - Hypotheses regarding the causes of the explosion of tank No. 7 and 6 - Board of Inquiry’s final verdict

 

Publications mentioning the plane crash

 

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
by David N. Schwartz, Basic Books, USA, 2017

 

Aviation disasters: the world’s major civil airliner crashes since 1950
by David Gero, Haynes Pubns, USA, 2009

 

Fireballs: a history of meteors and other atmospheric phenomena
by Craig R. Hipkins, Xlibris, Corp., USA, 2009

 

La «nera» di Dino Buzzati
edited by Lorenzo Viganò, Mondadori, Italy, 2002

 

Disaster in the air
by Edgar A. Haine, Cornwall Books, USA, 2000

 

All about lightning
by Martin A. Uman, Dover Publications, USA, 1987

 

The plane crash on the front page of Corriere della sera newspaper of June 27, 1959