JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Seventy years ago, Jacksonville experienced its first commercial airline disaster that claimed the lives of 17 people.
News4JAX aviation analyst Ed Booth is not only an expert on the history of that crash, but his father and uncle both took part in the crash investigation.
“The 1955 crash was the deadliest. It involved a Lockheed Constellation aircraft operated by Eastern Airlines,” Booth said…