Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
Somehow I fell down an internet hole about Farrell's Ice Cream (of which I have only the vaguest memory). Someone mentioned their connection to the worst air-ground disaster to date (1972) so I ended up in a slide show...
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article174632791.html
and found this:
Pretty much the door panel and the rear bumper are the only cues this was a '72 NY'er. I think there is another car mixed in at the front... too much stuff to be one car.
What really amazes me is that the plane (F-86 Sabre) managed to remain so intact. I generally think of aircraft as rather flimsy, hollow and lightweight. The pilot actually survived with just a broken arm, the crash was pretty much the result of him failing to abort when the plane couldn't lift. It instead drove across the street from the airport and into a mall outlot. 22 dead, 12 were children. I couldn't imagine being that guy.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article174632791.html
and found this:
Pretty much the door panel and the rear bumper are the only cues this was a '72 NY'er. I think there is another car mixed in at the front... too much stuff to be one car.
What really amazes me is that the plane (F-86 Sabre) managed to remain so intact. I generally think of aircraft as rather flimsy, hollow and lightweight. The pilot actually survived with just a broken arm, the crash was pretty much the result of him failing to abort when the plane couldn't lift. It instead drove across the street from the airport and into a mall outlot. 22 dead, 12 were children. I couldn't imagine being that guy.