Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 OCT 1953 |
| Type: | Lockheed L-749A Constellation |
| Operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Registration: | N119A |
| C/n / msn: | 2616 |
| First flight: | 1949 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 22 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 27 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL/KIDL), United States of America |
| San Juan (unknown airport), Puerto Rico |
Descended into the ground shortly after takeoff.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's loss of visual reference and orientation when he encountered drifting fog shortly after becoming airborne on take-off, and the resultant inadvertent assumption of a descending flight path." Sources:
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
