New monument marks anniversary of NYC air crash
By Associated Press
Dec 16, 2010 1:33 PM CST
In this Dec. 2, 2010 photo, pedestrians and a truck pass through the intersection of 7th Avenue and Sterling Place in Brooklyn where a United Air Lines jet smashed into the Park Slope neighborhood fifty years ago follwing a midair collision with a TWA propeller plane a mile above New York. It was the...   (Associated Press)

A historic cemetery has a new memorial honoring the 134 people who died in a midair plane collision over New York City 50 years ago.

Bagpipers played "Amazing Grace" as about 150 people, including relatives, watched the unveiling of a granite monument on Thursday. A bronze plaque bears the names of the victims of the Dec. 16, 1960 crash.

The collision of a United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA propeller plane left a legacy of improved air safety in its wake.

The United plane destroyed at least 10 buildings when it crashed into the Park Slope neighborhood.

The memorial is at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.

It is the final resting place of many notables, including composer Leonard Bernstein.

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