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Documents related to the plane crash
June 17, 2010
October 1961 - International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
November 15, 1960 - Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB)
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
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
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 in the newspapers
27/06/1959
The plane crash in Italian newspapers
(36 pictures)
26/06/1959
The plane crash in USA newspapers
(72 pictures)
27/06/1959
The plane crash in British newspapers
(2 pictures)
27/06/1959
The plane crash in Swiss newspapers
(10 pictures)