Dr. Kamlet died on December 16, 1960. He was one of the 134 people who were killed in the 1960 New York mid-air collision between a TWA Lockheed Constellation and a United Air Lines DC-8 near Idlewild (now JFK) airport.Altman, N. n.d.. Pillar of Fire. Recalling the day the sky fell, December 16, 1960. http://spreader.com/article44.html. {accessed September 14, 2005}. All 128 people aboard the two planes and six people on the ground died. The United Airlines plane remained in the air for 8.5 miles and crashed onto Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue, igniting more than a dozen buildings. Because of the bad weather, comparatively few pedestrians were about.
