Logan International Airport

Accidents and incidents

Accidents

On October 4, 1960, Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 crashed into the sea while attempting to take off from Logan Airport. 62 people died and 10 people survived, incurring serious injuries.^[10]
On November 15, 1961, A Vickers Viscount N6592C of Northeast Airlines was written off when it collided with a Douglas DC-6 N8228H of National Airlines after landing at Logan International Airport. The DC-6 had started to take-off without receiving clearance to do so.^[11]^[12]
On July 31, 1973, Delta Air Lines Flight 723, a DC-9 airplane, crashed into a seawall at Logan Airport, causing the deaths of all 83 passengers and 6 crew members on board. One of the passengers initially survived the accident but later died in a hospital.^[13]
On November 3, 1973, Pan Am Flight 160, a Boeing 707-321C cargo aircraft, crashed on approach to Boston-Logan. Smoke in the cockpit caused the pilots to lose control. Three people died in the hull-loss accident.^[14]
On January 23, 1982, World Airways Flight 30 from Newark to Boston made a non-precision instrument approach to runway 15R and touched down 2,800 feet (850 m) past the displaced threshold on an icy runway. When the crew sensed that the DC-10-30-CF could not be stopped on the remaining runway, they steered the DC-10 off the side of the runway to avoid the approach light pier, and slid into the shallow water of Boston Harbor. The nose section separated as the DC-10 came to rest 250 feet (76 m) past the runway end, 110 feet (34 m) left of the extended centerline. Two passengers (a father and son) were never found and are presumed to have been swept out to sea.^[15]

Incidents

On July 2, 1976, an unoccupied Eastern Airlines L-188 Electra parked at Boston Logan Airport was destroyed by a bomb put in the landing gears. No one was hurt.^[16]
On April 3, 1979, a portion of the south wing of Terminal E at Logan Airport was evacuated when a bathroom device triggered a blaze in a third-floor men's room.^[17]
On the morning of September 11, 2001, two of the aircraft involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, left Logan International Airport at about 8:00 and 8:10, both bound for Los Angeles. Both planes were hijacked by terrorists associated with Al Qaeda and flown into the North and South Tower, of New York's World Trade Center on purpose, which made the towers collapse, which led the destruction of the World Trade Center. United and American Airlines have put American flags on Gates B32 and C19, the gates from which the flights left that day.^[18]
On December 22, 2001, Richard Reid attempted to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 with a bomb in his shoe over the Atlantic Ocean. The flight left Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and its intended destination was Miami International Airport.^[19] The flight was diverted to Boston after the passengers and crew caught Reid. One flight attendant was bitten on the thumb by Reid.
On January 7, 2013, ground crew workers noticed smoke coming out from the battery part of a parked Japan Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner at the gate.^[20] This fire was caused by overcharged lithium-ion batteries, which then leading to the grounding of the 787 airplanes^[21] and subsequent redesign of the battery systems.^[22]

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Logan International Airport

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