List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft 1919 – 1959
November 16 – National Airlines Flight 967, a Douglas DC-7B, crashes into the Gulf of Mexico while on a flight from Tampa, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana, in a possible case of sabotage; all 40 on board perish. The cause was suspected to have been an attempted case of Insurance fraud; the main suspect  was not charged due to a lack of evidence and died of natural causes in May 1969