THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 14, 1947 

* Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410
* Douglas DC-4 airplane crash 
* Blue Ridge Mountains - West Virginia

The top of the front page has a one column heading: "AIRLINER IS LOST WITH 50 ON BOARD IN MOUNTAIN AREA" with subheads." (see images)
Complete with all 30 pages, light toning at the margins, nice condition.

Background: The June 14, 1947, publication of The New York Times chronicled the tragic crash of Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Flight 410, a watershed moment in aviation history that fundamentally reshaped commercial airline safety and infrastructure in the United States. Occurring less than three weeks after another devastating DC-4 crash at LaGuardia Airport that killed 43 people, the loss of all 50 individuals aboard Flight 410 on Lookout Rock marked the deadliest commercial aviation disaster in U.S. history up to that date, triggering a profound crisis of public confidence in the rapidly expanding post-WWII airline industry. The sheer magnitude and rapid succession of these disasters forced the federal government to intervene, prompting President Harry S. Truman to appoint a special board of inquiry to investigate airline safety. The subsequent Civil Aeronautics Board investigation revealed that the pilots had descended below authorized minimum altitudes during severe weather, a finding that catalyzed the systemic overhaul of instrument flight rules, accelerated the development and implementation of more stringent terrain-clearance standards, and ultimately spurred the creation of modern radar and air traffic control systems designed to prevent controlled flight into terrain (CFIT).