Northeast Airlines Flight 792
Douglas DC-3 · Crashed on approach in snowstorm due to pilot error
From Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) to Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 7
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 5
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Douglas DC-3
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-3
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N17891
- Operator
- Northeast Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)To Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Northeast Airlines Flight 792 was a scheduled domestic flight from Boston, Massachusetts, to Berlin, New Hampshire, with a stopover at Concord, New Hampshire. On November 30, 1954, the Douglas DC-3 struck into the side of Mount Success during a snowstorm, jolted to a violent halt. Its left wing and propeller engine burst into flames. Survivors were huddling in the plane for 45 hours before being found by rescuers and volunteers.
Accident
At 11:03, the flight crew asked for weather. As of the updated information at 11:10: scattered at 2300 ft, overcast at 3000 ft, 2½ miles visibility - close to Berlin's minimum. The flight acknowledged the information, but did not give its altitude nor position. Meanwhile the flight was descending for a straight-in approach. The captain was able to recognize visual references on the ground until the plane entered the overcast, when it encountered a severe downdraft. In an effort to save the plane, the captain raised the nose of the plane, but it was too late. The plane lost 500 ft of altitude and crashed into the snow-covered southern slope of Mount Success in the Mahoosuc mountain range.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Northeast Airlines Flight 792
- Revision
- 1370711808 · 2026-08-22 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q140813817
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Northeast Airlines Flight 792" (page 82823271, revision 1370711808)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.