Summary: Air travel is, statistically, the very safest form of transport but it wasn't always that way. Imagine living in Elizabeth, a suburb near New York's Newark airport in 1951 when, within a period of only 3 months, aircraft began raining from the sky onto your neighborhood.<br> <br> <br> <br> The crash site of Flight 1678M.<br> <br> <br> <br> An American Airways Convair CV240.<br> <br> <br> <br> A National Airways CD6.<br> <br> <br> <br> The City of Elizabeth today.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence, US Gov Bureau of Aircraft Accidents, Dagrecco, Jon Proctor, Bill Larkins.
