High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 was a scheduled, domestic passenger flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Atlanta, Georgia, that crashed near Jones Beach State Park, New York, on February 8, 1965. Flight 663 had scheduled stopovers at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York, Richmond, Virginia, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Greenville, South Carolina, and crashed just after taking off from JFK Airport. All 79 passengers and five crew aboard the Eastern Airlines DC-7 perished.