bundles of wires, thereby damaging them. The Bendix Corporation issued denials, stating that the units underwent 61 inspections during manufacturing, in addition to inspections during installation and maintenance work, and insisted that had the insulation on the wires been breached at some point, it would have surely been detected and the unit replaced. American Airlines continues using the "Flight 1" designator after the accident; AA1 is still used for a daily morning departure from New York-JFK to Los Angeles using an Airbus A321T as of 2022. Notable victims Well-known persons aboard the aircraft when it went down in Jamaica Bay included: Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly, USN (retired), president of Long Island University and two-time Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, and his wife Helen George T. Felbeck, retired president of Union Carbide and former operations manager of Oak Ridge, Tennessee's uranium enrichment plant, traveling the day after he retired. W. Alton Jones, multimillionaire, former president and chairman of Cities Service Company and close personal friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Jones was found to be carrying $55,690 in cash, including a rare $10,000 bill. Arnold Kirkeby, millionaire realtor and former head of the Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels Louise Sara Eastman, mother of Linda McCartney Emelyn Whiton, 1952 Olympic sailing gold medalist (6-m keelboat) In addition to the loss of life, fifteen of painter Arshile Gorky's paintings and drawings were destroyed in the crash. In popular culture The crash serves as the central plot element in the 2008 Mad Men episode "Flight 1". See also Aviation safety List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft American Airlines Flight 1 (1936) American Airlines Flight 1 (1941) References External links Another picture of the ill-fated 707 A picture of the rudder of the accident aircraft Airliner accidents and incidents in New York City Airliner accidents and incidents caused by maintenance errors Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1962 1 Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 707 1960s in Queens 1962 in New York City March 1962 events in the United States