| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | October 19, 1953 |
| Time: | 0056 |
| Location: | New York City, New York |
| Operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Flight #: | 627 |
| Route: | New York City - San Juan |
| AC Type: | Lockheed 749A Constellation |
| Registration: | N119A |
| cn / ln: | 2616 |
| Aboard: | 27 (passengers:22 crew:5) |
| Fatalities: | 2 (passengers:2 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The aircraft crashed a few seconds after becoming airborne. 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. |
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