American Airlines Flight 514
The wreckage of N7514A at the crash site | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | August 15, 1959 |
| Summary | Loss of control due to improper flight controls |
| Site | |
| An American Airlines Boeing 707-123, similar to the aircraft involved. This would later crash as American Airlines Flight 1502. | |
| Aircraft name | Flagship Connecticut |
| Operator | American Airlines |
| Call sign | American 514 |
| Registration | N7514A |
| Flight origin | Idlewild International Airport |
| Destination | Calverton Executive Airpark |
| Occupants | 5 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Fatalities | 5 |
| Survivors | 0 |
American Airlines Flight 514 was a training flight from Idlewild International Airport in Queens, New York, to the Grumman Aircraft Corporation airfield in Calverton, New York. On the afternoon of August 15, 1959, the Boeing 707 operating the flight crashed near the Calverton airport, killing all five crew members aboard. This was the first accident to involve a Boeing 707, which had only gone into service in October of the previous year, and the first of three accidents involving American's 707s in the New York area within three years, followed by Flight 1502 and Flight 1.