Dramatization
The story of the disaster was featured on the eighth season of Canadian National Geographic Channel show Mayday (known as Air Emergency in the US, Mayday in Ireland, and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and the rest of world). The episode is entitled System Breakdown. An episode from the twelfth season, entitled Grand Canyon Disaster, also featured this accident.
The story of this disaster was covered in the third season of the History Channel program UFO Files. The episode, entitled Black Box UFO Secrets, contained the Universal Newsreel footage of the accident narrated by Ed Herlihy. In this episode, it is mentioned that this accident prompted the FAA and NTSB to make flight recorders mandatory on U.S. airliners.
Read more about this topic: 1956 Grand Canyon Mid-air Collision