Accidents and incidents at John F. Kennedy International Airport

John F. Kennedy International Airport has been the site of many accidents and incidents before, as well as aviation accidents and incidents.

1953

19 October

An Eastern Airlines flight from Idlewild International Airport (the former name of JFK) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, operated by Lockheed L-749A Constellation N119A crashed on take-off. Two passengers were killed.^[1]

1954

18 December

A Linee Aeree Italiane Douglas DC-6 crashed on its fourth approach attempt to land at Idlewild, after circling for 2.5 hours. 26 of the 32 passengers on board were killed.

1958

10 November

Vickers Viscount, CF-TGL of Trans-Canada Air Lines was destroyed by fire after it was struck by Lockheed L-749 Constellation N6503C of Seaboard & Western Airlines which had crashed on take-off.^[2]

1960

16 December

A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collided; the DC-8 crashed in Park Slope, Brooklyn, the Super Constellation on Staten Island, killing all 128 people on board both airliners and six on the ground.

1962

1 March

American Airlines Flight 1,^[3] a Boeing 707 crashed on takeoff from Idlewild after its rudder jammed. All 87 passengers and 8 crew members were killed.

30 November

Eastern Air Lines Flight 512, a Douglas DC-7, crashed into the ground during a missed approach.

1963

4 October

New York Airways Flight 600, a Boeing Vertol 107 helicopter, crashed shortly after takeoff from Idlewild Airport (now JFK) en route to Newark via Wall Street. All three passengers and all three crew members died. The accident was blamed on a mechanical failure due to contaminated lubricants.^[4]

1965

8 February

Eastern Air Lines Flight 663, a Douglas DC-7, crashed off Jones Beach after takeoff when the pilots found themselves on an apparent collision course with an inbound Pan Am Boeing 707 and made evasive maneuvers.

1970

8 September

Trans International Airlines DC-8-63CF ferry flight to Dulles International Airport crashed on takeoff from runway 13R, killing all 11 crewmembers on board. The DC-8 freighter started rotating in a nose-high attitude 1,500 feet (460 m) into the take-off. After becoming airborne at 2,800 feet (850 m) down the runway, the aircraft climbed to about 300–500 feet, rolled 20 degrees to the left, crashed and caught fire. The loss of pitch control was caused by the entrapment of a pointed, asphalt-covered object between the leading edge of the right elevator and the right horizontal spar web access door in the aft part of the stabilizer.

1975

24 June

Eastern Air Lines Flight 66, a Boeing 727 on final approach from New Orleans, crashed into the runway lights short of runway 22L, killing 112 passengers and crew. The cause of the crash was wind shear during a heavy thunderstorm.

1990

25 January

Avianca Flight 52, a Boeing 707-321B arriving from Bogotá and Medellin, crashed at Cove Neck, Long Island, after a missed approach to runway 22L at JFK and subsequently running out of fuel. 73 passengers and crew perished while 85 survived.^[5]

1992

30 July

TWA Flight 843, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar departing for San Francisco, aborted takeoff shortly after liftoff. There were no fatalities among the 280 passengers, although the aircraft was destroyed.^[6]

2001

12 November

American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 crashed while en route to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. During climb, the aircraft lost most of its vertical fin due to over-control of the rudder while encountering wake turbulence with a Japan Airlines 747, and crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens.^[7] The crash killed all 260 people on the plane and five people on the ground.

References

1. "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
2. "Accident Description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved September 7, 2009.
3. "Accident Database: Accident Synopsis 03011962". Airdisaster.com. March 1, 1962. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
4. "Aircraft Accident Report - New York Airways, inc., Boeing-Vertol 107-II, N6673D, New York International Airport, Jamaica, New York October 14, 1963" (PDF). National Transportation and Safety Board. June 24, 1964. Retrieved 2007-02-09.
5. McQuiston, John T. (January 26, 1990). "Plane Crashes on L.I. With 149 Aboard". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
6. McFadden, Robert D. (July 31, 1992). "Escape From Flight 843". The New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
7. Malnic, Eric; Alonso-Zaldivar, Ricardo (November 11, 2001). "Turbulence from 747 Likely Caused New York Crash". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 7, 2012.