TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.

TWA Flight 529 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 propliner, registration N86511, operating as a scheduled passenger service from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California. On September 1, 1961, at 02:05 CDT, the flight crashed into a field south of Clarendon Hills, Illinois shortly after…