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Survived the Crash - Died 133 Days Later, Officially a Survivor

Survived the Crash - Died 133 Days Later, Officially a Survivor

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Survived the Crash - Died 133 Days Later, Officially a Survivor

Fear and bureaucratic indifference collide in a case where a man pulled alive from a jetliner wreckage lived 133 days after the crash yet was still officially counted as a survivor - a rule written into federal law. How did an experienced crew, a well-maintained DC‑9 and an approach designed for the weather end with the aircraft striking a seawall 3,000 feet short of the runway?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events on July 31, 1973, from the flight crew and aircraft history to the air traffic controller’s distraction and the late clearance that altered the approach geometry, asking how small failures stacked until catastrophe became inevitable.

Person: Leopold Chouinard
Date: July 31, 1973
Event: Delta Air Lines Flight 723 struck seawall and disintegrated
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas DC-9, registration N975NE
Location: Boston Logan International vicinity (165 feet off centerline, 3,000 feet short)

- Impact time: 11:08 AM on July 31, 1973.
- Fatalities on impact: 87 people died immediately.
- Survivors pulled from wreckage alive: 2 people.
- Survivor later died: Leopold Chouinard survived 133 days, died December 11, 1973.
- Aircraft distance from runway at impact: 3,000 feet short and 165 feet off the runway centerline.

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