A Braniff Airways DC-7C Crashes At Miami International Airport March 25, 1958

Soon after midnight on March 25, 1958 a Braniff Airways DC-7C plummeted from the sky. Disaster occurred soon after takeoff from Miami International Airport. A nearby nightwatchman saw the plane's impact and heard the screams of the fifteen survivors on board. The crash was the first ever at Miami International. Among the dead was the daughter of famed French composer Paul Dukas, the writer of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Another who perished was a niece of former French Premier Leon Blum. A Civil Aeronautics Board investigation following the crash. It sought to learn the details and cause of the prop jet's sudden fall from the sky.