The Boy Who Survived for a Day December 16, 1960. Two airliners collided over New York. 128 people died in the sky. Six more died on the ground in Brooklyn. One boy was thrown into a snowbank alive. Stephen Baltz was 11 years old. He told nurses what he saw. He died the next morning.
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New York Times, December 17, 1960, 'Boy, Sole Survivor of Crash, Dies'; FAA/CAB accident report on 1960 New York mid-air collision
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