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===Mackay Radio Tower=== The Mackay Radio Tower is the last of two towers (originally {{convert|300|ft|m}} high and {{convert|1000|ft|m}} apart) that were used to transmit international point-to-point radio communications starting in 1927. At the height of [[World War II]] the tower was used for responding to upwards of ten [[SOS]] calls a day from ships at sea.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wireless History |url=http://longislandgenealogy.com/Wireless/Wireless.html |access-date=2009-08-19}}</ref> The tower had somebody on site 24 hours a day, but the actual transmissions were keyed from [[Southampton (village), New York|Southampton]]. The towers toppled during the [[Great 1938 Hurricane]]. At 12:35 pm. on January 28, 1961, an [[American Airlines]] [[Boeing 707]] Flight 1502 (Flagship Oklahoma) with an engine on fire nosedived over the towers before crashing about {{convert|300|yd}} off the Napeague coast, killing all six aboard. The plane had been on a training flight from [[Idlewild Airport]]. An often repeated story says the plane clipped one of the towers, but ''The New York Times'' account of the crash says it just missed the towers.<ref>{{cite news |title=6 Die as Jetliner Crashes Off L.I. on Training Flight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/29/archives/6-die-as-jetliner-crashes-off-li-on-training-flight-flaming-plane.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 29, 1961 |page=1 |access-date=2011-09-21}}</ref> The Mackay towers were decommissioned in 1984,<ref>{{cite web |title=Radio Facilities on Long Island |url=http://www.mackayhistory.com/Mackay_Radio_2.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120903183351/http://www.mackayhistory.com/Mackay_Radio_2.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 3, 2012 |access-date=2009-08-19}}</ref> and its underlying land is now part of [[Napeague State Park]]. One of the towers was torn down. The remaining tower is used for communication purposes by the [[New York State Police]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Rather |first=John |title=Eyesore Or Not, A Tower Is Likely |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 30, 2006 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DD133FF933A05757C0A9609C8B63 |access-date=2009-08-30}}</ref> Its flashing white lights were once visible throughout the area but haven't been operational in a year or two.
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