city limit in the space of two years, and the New York air disaster that happened a day before, stopped the expansion plans. The city and state governments decided to build a new airport outside the city limit instead. Similar discussions were held in Hamburg about its Fuhlsbüttel Airport, but the airport was expanded rather than relocated elsewhere, making the airport the oldest continuously operated in Germany to this day. See also 1960 New York mid-air collision: two airliners collided on 16 December 1960 American Airlines Flight 6780: first fatal crash of a Convair 240 on 22 January 1952 British Airways Flight 38: suffered engine failure due to ice crystals in the fuel, clogging the fuel-oil heat exchanger just short of the runway at Heathrow Airport, London, UK on 17 January 2008 List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft Lynyrd Skynyrd 1977 CV-240 crash 1955 Altensteig mid-air collision 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash 1964 Machida F-8 crash 1977 Yokohama F-4 crash 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash Cavalese cable car disaster (1998) References Other sources Oberbayerisches Volksblatt / Rosenheimer Anzeiger (No. 293 – year 106), 19 December 1960 (German) Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 569/1960 Summary of a TV report (German). Retrieved 23 January 2019. Great Disasters by Editor John Canning, published by Octopus in 1976. Erinnerungen an das Drama in München. Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation: text, video and pictures (German). Retrieved 23 January 2019. Aviation accidents and incidents in Germany History of Munich Munich Convair 340 Crash, 1960 Aviation accidents and incidents in 1960 Accidents and incidents involving United States Air Force aircraft 1960s in Munich Germany–United States relations University System of Maryland December 1960 events in Europe Tram accidents Accidents and incidents involving the Convair CV-240 family