A
Curtiss C-46 Commando operating for US Airlines, leased from the
USAF, a cargo flight with two occupants inbound from
Raleigh-Durham International Airport, crashed 4.4 miles north of Idlewild tower in heavy rain and overcast conditions at the intersection of 169 Street and 89th Avenue in Jamaica,
Queens, New York. Both occupants were killed and three on the ground also died. Cause of the accident was a loss of control following a sudden engine failure caused by a deteriorated fuel feed valve during an attempted missed approach.[1]
A
Linee Aeree ItalianeDouglas 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.
Aeronaves de Mexico Flight 401, a
Douglas DC-8-21 with 97 passengers and 9 crew on board bound for Mexico City, crashed and burned after aborting takeoff from Runway 07R in marginally bad weather, there was snow on the runway, 4 crewmembers were killed.[4]
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.[6]
Trans International Airlines Flight 863, a 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.
1973
23 June
Loftleiðir Icelandic
Douglas DC-8 (registered N8960T) was damaged in a tail-first landing at
John F. Kennedy International Airport, when it completed Flight 509 on the
Stockholm-
Oslo-Reykjavík-
New York route with 119 passengers and nine crew members on board. An
NTSB investigation found that the accident was caused by a flawed procedure when the
spoilers were extended (right after touchdown rather than once the landing gear had been lowered).[8]
1975
24 June
Eastern Air LinesFlight 66, a
Boeing 727 on final approach from
New Orleans, crashed into the runway lights short of runway 22L, killing 113 passengers and crew. The cause of the crash was
wind shear during a heavy thunderstorm.
12 November
Overseas National Airways Flight 032, a
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, struck a flock of sea gulls during takeoff, crashing past Taxiway Z. All 129 passengers and 10 crew members escaped successfully while the aircraft was destroyed. The cause of the accident was determined to have been seagulls, which struck the landing gear and the right engine, resulting in an uncontained engine failure.
1984
28 February
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901, a
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 with 163 passengers and 14 crew on board arriving from Oslo, Norway overran runway 4R on landing in low visibility and wound up in shallow water 200 meters from the end of the runway, injuring 12 passengers. The cause of the accident was the crew's failure to monitor their airspeed and overreliance on the aircraft's autothrottle. Although substantially damaged, the plane was later repaired and returned to service.
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.[9]
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 and 12 crew, although the aircraft was destroyed.[10]
1993
11 February
Lufthansa Flight 592, an
Airbus A310 from Frankfurt, was hijacked by an Ethiopian man seeking asylum in the United States, landed at JFK. The hijacker surrendered.
1996
17 July
TWA Flight 800, was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, at about 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to
Rome, with a stopover in
Paris. All 230 people on board died in the
third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
It was thought that this was a terrorist attack on account of the fact that this incident occurred two months and a day after the
September 11 attacks, however that was confirmed to not be the case.
2011
11 April
Air France Flight 007, operated with an Airbus A380, collided with
Delta ConnectionFlight 6293, a
Bombardier CRJ 701, while the Airbus was taxiing for takeoff from JFK.[12] None of the passengers or crew members on either airplane were injured.
2014
5 December
In December 2014, Cho hyu-ah, the daughter of the then Korean Air chairman, Cho An, ordered the pilot of a Korean Air to drive back to the gate. The reason for this is the
flight attendant had served nuts to her in packaging as opposed to on a plate. Cho was later arrested by authorities and later resigned. Later it was found out that Cho acted the same way on another flight in 2013.[13]
Aeroflot Flight 102, a passenger flight with the plane tail number of VQ-BIL coming from
Moscow to New York, received a bomb threat that caused the temporary closure of a runway and the delay of Aeroflot Flight 103, a return flight back to Moscow. The bomb threat in question was published from a
Twitter account that was compromised by
hackers with the aliases of "Omnipotent" and "choonkeat".[15][16][17]
2022
17 June
ITA Airways Flight 611, an
Airbus A330-202 (Registration EI-EJL) made contact with
Air France Flight 008, a
Boeing 777-228ER (Registration F-GSPQ) during taxi for takeoff at
New York-JFK International Airport. At the time the flight crew of AFR008 had stopped with the parking brake set while waiting for the gate personnel to finish preparing gate 9 to receive their flight at Terminal 1. About the time the tug arrived, the crew said they felt the airplane move due to a "hard connection", but they were unaware of an airplane passing behind at that time. Maintenance informed the flight crew of damage to the elevator, and it was determined to be from the ITA Airways A330 that had passed behind. The
Air France flight crew said they tried to contact the Air Traffic Control to stop the ITA Airways flight, but the ITA Airways flight 611 took off without receiving notification of the collision. On the Departure,
New York TRACON controllers informed AZ611, reporting: "Another aircraft on the ground currently, Air France, said you hit them or something of that nature while you were taxiing. Did you experience any damage to the aircraft?" The
ITA Airways pilot responded "Negative, sir." The flight continued to Rome and landed uneventfully; F-GSPQ was ferried to Paris on July 12.[18]
2023
13 January
A near-collision occurred when
American Airlines Flight 106 crossed Runway 4L while
Delta Air Lines Flight 1943 was using it for takeoff. After being warned by the air traffic controllers, Flight 1943 successfully aborted its takeoff after slamming on the brakes and stopped 1,000 feet (330 yd; 300 m) away from the intersection.[19][20] The flight returned to the gate and was delayed overnight.[21]
A
SWISS flight bound to
Zurich had to cancel their takeoff in order to prevent a collision after four other aircrafts, belonging to
American Airlines,
Delta and
Republic, were cleared to cross runway 4L while the Swiss flight was departing on it. With the ATC not being bothered by it, they gave Delta flight DL668 clearance to land on 4L, while the SWISS A330 was still on it. [25]