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Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Atlanta, Georgia, with scheduled stopovers at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York; Richmond, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Greenville, South Carolina. On the night of February 8, 1965, the aircraft serving the flight, a Douglas DC-7, crashed near Jones Beach State Park, New York, just after taking off from JFK Airport. All 79 passengers and five crew aboard perished. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigations determined that evasive maneuvers undertaken by Flight 663 to avoid an oncoming Pan Am Boeing 707 caused the pilot to suffer spatial disorientation and lose control of the aircraft. The accident is the third-worst accident involving a DC-7. == Flight history == The Douglas DC-7 serving Flight 663 made its first flight in 1958, and had subsequently accumulated a total of 18,500 hours of flight time. It was piloted by Captain Frederick R. Carson, 41, who had been employed by Eastern Air Lines for 19 years and who had accumulated 12,607 hours of flight time. His copilot, First Officer Edward R. Dunn, 41, a nine-year veteran of Eastern Airlines, had 8,550 hours of flight time. The flight engineer was Douglas C. Mitchell, 24, with two years' employment and 407 pilot hours and 141 hours flight engineer time. All had passed proficiency checks with the DC-7B aircraft. The two flight attendants aboard were Linda Lord and Judith Durkin.〔 (Navigate: Historical Aircraft Accident Reports (1934-1965) → 1965 → Eastern Air Lines.)〕 The flight from Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, to John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York, proceeded normally. Flight 663 departed JFK at 6:20 p.m. EDT on an ''instrument flight rules'' (IFR) clearance to Byrd Field (now Richmond International Airport), in Richmond, Virginia.〔〔 Take-off proceeded normally, and the airport control-tower prepared to hand over control to the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) on Long Island, noting that Flight 663 was executing a ''Dutch seven departure'', a routine takeoff procedure that required a series of turns over the Atlantic Ocean in order to avoid flying over New York City. The New York ARTCC responded with the information that Pan American Airways Flight 212, a Boeing 707, was descending to in the same airspace. Though the control tower responded that Flight 663 was at a higher altitude than Flight 212, it was, in fact, lower.〔 Subsequently, the control tower radioed the Pan Am flight that there was traffic in his airspace at ''11 o'clock'', six miles away travelling southeast of Pam Am's position, climbing above . Pan Am 212 acknowledged. Air traffic control then radioed Flight 663 a similar advisory: at ''2 o'clock'', five miles away travelling, below Flight 663's position.〔 ((plaintext ))〕 In reality, the traffic, Pan Am 212, was above Flight 663, descending from . Captain Carson acknowledged that he saw the traffic, that he was beginning to turn into the Dutch seven departure, and signed off, saying, ''good night''.〔 Flight 663's radioed ''good night'' at 6:25 p.m. was the last transmission received from the flight.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eastern Air Lines Flight 663」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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