A lesser-known crash occurred on Nov. 1, 1949 when a Bolivian pilot named Erick Rios Bridoux flying a P-38 “war surplus” airplane hit an Eastern Airline plane, killing 55 people.

The Mattoon Police Department, in a news release issued Friday afternoon, identified the man as 54-year-old Curtis A. Meadows of Neoga.

The collision was the deadliest U.S. air crash since 2001. There was no immediate word on the cause of the collision, but officials said flight conditions were clear as the jet arrived from ...

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