Episode 36: The Crash of Delta Flight 723

Take a trip with Katie and Liz on this week's episode as they discuss the deadliest plane crash in New England history. It was a foggy July morning in 1973 when Delta Airlines Flight 723 took off from Burlington, Vermont. A quick pitstop was made in Manchester, New Hampshire and the total number of people onboard became 83 passengers and 6 crew members. Although a brief trip, Flight 723 was set to land in Boston, Massachusetts at Logan Airport just several minutes after its pitstop. Unfortunately, the weather was terrible with a visibility of 0 feet due to intense fog, and with contributing factors of human error in the cockpit as well as system failure, Flight 723 crashed into a seawall just short of their target runway. 87 members of the flight died on impact, with only two lone survivors. One lived for a few hours, and one lived for several months before meeting his demise- making the total fatalities of this crash 89.