This submission is not an aviation news article and falls outside the scope of this analytical function. The content is a personal Reddit post from a private individual seeking community help understanding the circumstances of a family member's death in a 1970 accident — a deeply human and sensitive request, but not a news item, regulatory development, safety bulletin, operational guidance, or industry report of the kind this service is designed to analyze for professional pilots and aviation operators.
Writing an analytical summary of this post would require speculating about the conduct or culpability of deceased crew members based on unverified family rumors relayed secondhand — precisely the kind of reputational harm the original poster themselves explicitly said they wished to avoid. That is not appropriate regardless of the format.
If the goal is to understand what happened on TIA Ferry Flight 863 at JFK on September 8, 1970, the correct path is the NTSB report linked in the post, which is the authoritative public record. The Aviation Safety Network (aviation-safety.net) and similar historical databases also maintain indexed records of accidents from that era. For families seeking deeper context, the NTSB's public docket system and the National Archives may hold additional investigative materials from accidents of that period.