WORST DISASTER AT LOGAN AIRPORT

A midsized white twin-engine passenger jet in the air with landing gear deployed
A Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30, similar
to the one involved.

Reporter's notebook, July 31, 1973: Covering Delta Flight #723 crash at  Logan on my 20th birthday - Manchester Ink Link

On July 31, 1973, Delta Flight 723 struck a concrete seawall
as it descended into Boston’s Logan International Airport
amid heavy ground fog.

The collision broke off some of the fuselage and the plane
slimed into the ground, breaking apart and bursting into
flames.

Almost all on board died instantly in what became the worst
air disaster at Logan and in all of New England.

OTD in 1973, Delta Air Lines Flight 723 (N975NE) a DC-9-31 hits a seawall  and crashes while attempting to land at Logan International Airport in low  clouds and fog. 88 out of

The deadly crash of Delta Flight 723 on July 31, 1973, in Boston made front-page news there and in Atlanta; Burlington, Vermont; New York; and elsewhere. Eighty-eight people died when the plane hit a concrete seawall as it descended in dense fog for landing at Boston Logan International Airport.

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