- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: July 15, 1969
Time: 0657
Location: New York City, New York
Operator: New York Airways
Flight #: 901
Route: New York - Newark
AC Type: de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200
Registration: N558MA
cn / ln: 175
Aboard: 14   (passengers:11  crew:3)
Fatalities: 3   (passengers:1  crew:2)
Ground: 0
Summary: The plane flew into wake turbulence and crashed. The pilot was 12 minutes behind schedule and made an intersection takeoff. The tower warned him of wake turbulence from a recently departing jet.
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