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The delayed clearance that let the DC‑9 meet the seawall
A DC‑9 on ILS into fog at Logan races a delayed clearance toward a seawall as instruments and cockpit silence conspire - did they make it in time?
The delayed clearance that let the DC‑9 meet the seawall
In this episode, we follow the final minutes before a routine Boston approach turned catastrophic, tracing the sequence of decisions, instruments and absences that preceded impact. Why did a chain of small errors and a late clearance leave one passenger officially missing from the record?
Date: July 31, 1973
Flight: Delta Air Lines Flight Seven Twenty-Three
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas DC‑9…
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