The wreckage of Delta Flight 723 at Boston’s Logan Airport on July 31, 1973 as seen in a Boston Globe news photo.
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July 31 1973 / fromthearchive / Charles Dixon, Globe Staff / A rescue worker stands next to the section of charred fuselage of the wrecked Delta jet while other planes prepare to take off. The flight that preceded Flight 723 made a successful approach and landed on runway 4R and the two flights that followed Flight 723, without knowledge of the accident, abandoned their approaches at the decision height because of weather. Those flights both landed safely in Providence, RI.
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Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.