National Airlines Flight 101 was a scheduled flight from Newark Airport , New Jersey , to Miami , Florida , that on 11 February 1952 crashed in the town of Elizabeth , New Jersey , shortly after take-off . It was the third plane crash occurring in Elizabeth in less than two months , following the loss of a Miami Airlines C-46 in December and the crash of an American Airlines Convair 240 , three weeks earlier
crash of an American Airlines Convair 240
American Airlines Flight 6780
National Airlines Flight 101