| Date: | Monday 19 October 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-749A Constellation |
| Owner/operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Registration: | N119A |
| MSN: | 2616 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1949 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 27 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL/KIDL) |
| San Juan (unknown airport) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
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."
Accident investigation:
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 July 1951 | N119A | Eastern Air Lines | 0 | Curles Neck Farm, VA | |
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| Airframe failure | ||||||
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