Guess who is stopping by RiverHorse Farm today?
Two survivors...
Almost 50 years ago, in December 1965, two commercial airline flights collided at 30,000 feet above RiverHorse Farm. Eastern Air Lines Flight 853 collided with TWA Flight 42 mid-air over Carmel, NY. The TWA plane somehow made it back to JFK International Airport. The Eastern plane crash-landed in what is now our 30 acre hilltop paddock. A memorial plaque is mounted outside RiverHorse Farm commemorating both the lost and the brave survivors. Captain Charles J. White, the pilot of the Eastern plane, lost his life attempting to save the last passenger (whose seatbelt had jammed), and has been honored since that day for his heroism and skill in executing one of the most daring landings in aviation history.
The North Salem Historical Society was recently contacted by two of the survivors of the mid-air collision wishing to know if they could return to the place where they miraculously survived. "But of course," we responded when asked if we would be willing to show the two survivors the hill top where they somehow survived, a place where horses now peacefully graze.
More information on the crash may be read here and here.
Two survivors...
Almost 50 years ago, in December 1965, two commercial airline flights collided at 30,000 feet above RiverHorse Farm. Eastern Air Lines Flight 853 collided with TWA Flight 42 mid-air over Carmel, NY. The TWA plane somehow made it back to JFK International Airport. The Eastern plane crash-landed in what is now our 30 acre hilltop paddock. A memorial plaque is mounted outside RiverHorse Farm commemorating both the lost and the brave survivors. Captain Charles J. White, the pilot of the Eastern plane, lost his life attempting to save the last passenger (whose seatbelt had jammed), and has been honored since that day for his heroism and skill in executing one of the most daring landings in aviation history.
The North Salem Historical Society was recently contacted by two of the survivors of the mid-air collision wishing to know if they could return to the place where they miraculously survived. "But of course," we responded when asked if we would be willing to show the two survivors the hill top where they somehow survived, a place where horses now peacefully graze.
More information on the crash may be read here and here.
A view of the farm from the top field, where the plane crash-landed.
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