Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 AUG 1961 |
| Type: | Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation |
| Operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Registration: | N6220C |
| C/n / msn: | 4528 |
| First flight: | 1953 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| 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: | Taxi (TXI) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL/KIDL), United States of America |
| San Juan (unknown airport), Puerto Rico |
The L-1049 was taxiing for takeoff at Idlewild as a fire broke out. All three crew members escaped, but the airplane burned out.
Sources:
» Piston Engine Airliner Production List / A.B. Eastwood, J. Roach, 1996
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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.
