Photos: The 1990 Avianca plane crash on Long Island
See photos of what happened after Avianca Airlines Flight 52 crashed on the North Shore of Long Island, killing 73 of 158 people aboard thirty-five years ago.
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An overall view of the scene in Cove Neck on Jan. 26, 1990 where the Avianca plane crashed.
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Jerico firefighter Ike Goldstein comforts an injured child, Daniel Roden, who was found behind the cockpit by rescue workers at the site of the Avianca plance crash on Jan. 25, 1990..
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Aerial view of the Avianca plane cracsh in Cove Neck on Jan. 26, 1990.
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A firefighter carries an injured child from the site of the Avianca plane crash in Cove Neck on Jan. 25, 1990.
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A passenger is carried out of the mid-section of the Avianca plane crash in Cove Neck on Jan. 25, 1990.
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Rescuers attempt to get inside the mid-section of the Avianca plane crash in Cove Neck on Jan. 25, 1990.
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A firefighter assists an injured passenger at the site of the Avianca plane crash on Jan. 25, 1990.
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The site of the Avianca plane crash in Cove Neck showing the main fuselage broken apart in the woods on Jan. 25, 1990.
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The site of the Avianca plane crash in Cove Neck on Jan. 26, 1990.

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