World / USA / New Jersey / Verona, 1 km from center Coordinates: 40°49'56"N   74°13'24"W

Small airplane hit here in 1970


Single engine plane piloted by student with instructor en route from N. Caldwell Airport to Teterboro Airport on foggy night snagged the utility structure atop the Clairidge House apartments and crashed beside the building, killing both occupants of the plane.


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28 months ago NTSB   +2
This happened in 1970 as per this NTSB Report NYC70AN132
17 months ago   0
I was 13 years old when this happened and lived less than a mile west of Clairidge House on Franklin St., Cedar Grove. My sister and I were playing cards in our living room when we heard an enormous roar overhead. We could not remember ever hearing a plane go over our house that low. Some time later a neighbor banged on our door and told us a plane had hit the Clairidge House tower. We ran down to Pompton Avenue. When the fog cleared for a moment, the crowd there gasped to see most of the housing around the utility structure atop the highrise gone.
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