FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass. Aug. 16, 1958 

* Northeast Airlines Flight 258 disaster
* Nantucket Memorial Airport crash 
* Convair 240 - American airliner - airplane

The top of the front page has a four column headline: "Plane Crash Kills 22" with lead-in: "Northeast Airliner in Fiery Plunge On Nantucket Island" and subhead. (see images) 
Complete with 12 pages, light toning at the margins, a little spine wear, generally nice.

Background: The crash of Northeast Airlines Flight 258 on August 15, 1958, holds profound historical significance as a watershed moment that exposed the lethal combination of commercial pressure, inadequate pilot training, and deficient federal oversight during the golden age of postwar aviation. The disaster, which claimed 25 lives—including former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean—occurred when the Convair CV-240 plunged into the foggy scrub oaks just short of Nantucket Memorial Airport, a catastrophe driven by the captain’s decision to attempt a landing in visibility conditions far below legal safety minimums. The subsequent Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigation revealed a troubling pattern of systemic negligence, proving that Northeast Airlines had routinely failed to monitor its pilots' proficiency and that the crew had ignored critical, real-time weather warnings. Ultimately, the tragedy served as a grim catalyst for the aviation industry, forcing stricter enforcement of instrument approach regulations, accelerating the modernization of airport all-weather landing systems, and mandating more rigorous airline training protocols to ensure that safety margins could never again be bypassed for operational expediency.