East River Plane Crash Interviews

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Reporter Monroe Benton conducts beeper telephone calls between WNYC Newsroom and various police and coast guard departments concerning an East River plan crash near Rikers Island. Includes moment-by-moment details of the crash and survivors. Unproduced gathering of interviews for later news broadcast.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 68454
Municipal archives id: LT11