Delta Air Lines Flight 723

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Delta Air Lines Flight 723 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 twin-engine jetliner, 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. Out of the 89 people on board, 87 were killed on impact and one of the survivors died while being transported to hospital. The remaining survivor, who was Leopold Chouinard, would later die months after the crash, on December 11.—in the official report, he is listed as a survivor with critical injuries, due to length of time between the accident and when he died.

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