Delta Air Lines Flight 723
A Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30, similar to the one involved | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | July 31, 1973 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and ATC error |
| Site | Logan International Airport Boston, Massachusetts, United States 42°20′59″N 071°00′45″W / 42.34972°N 71.01250°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 |
| Operator | Delta Air Lines |
| IATA flight No. | DL723 |
| ICAO flight No. | DAL723 |
| Call sign | DELTA 723 |
| Registration | N975NE |
| Flight origin | Burlington International Airport Burlington, Vermont |
| Stopover | Manchester-Boston Regional Airport Manchester, New Hampshire |
| Destination | Logan International Airport Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupants | 89 |
| Passengers | 83 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 89 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Delta Air Lines Flight 723 was a flight operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 twin-engine jetliner, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Burlington, Vermont, to Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, with an intermediate stop in Manchester, New Hampshire. On July 31, 1973, at 11:08 a.m., while on an instrument landing system (ILS) instrument approach into Logan in low clouds and fog, the aircraft descended below the glidepath, struck a seawall, and crashed. All 89 of the occupants aboard were killed, including an initial survivor who died more than 4 months after the crash.