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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.

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.

Two passengers (a father and son) were never found and are presumed to have been swept out to sea. 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. 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.

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.

Three people died in the hull-loss accident. Smoke in the cockpit caused the pilots to lose control.

On November 3, 1973, Pan Am Flight 160, a Boeing 707-321C cargo aircraft, crashed on approach to Boston-Logan.

One of the passengers initially survived the accident but later died in a hospital.

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.

The DC-6 had started to take-off without receiving clearance to do so. 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.62 people died and 10 people survived, incurring serious injuries. On October 4, 1960, Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 crashed into the sea while attempting to take off from Logan Airport.It generates $559.4 million in state and local taxes. Logan Airport stimulates the New England regional economy by over $7billion each year. In 2010, it handled 3,681,739 international passengers. The airport is also the 12th busiest airport in the U.S. In 2010, it was the world's 28th busiest airport in terms of aircraft movements. As of July 2013, the service continues to operate with great success. Japan Airlines plans to inaugurate service to Tokyo in 2012, which would add the first service to Asia since 2001. The airport has service to destinations in the United States, as well as Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, and South America. The airport is a hub for regional airline Cape Air.

It is also a destination of many major European airlines, such as Lufthansa, British Airways, and Air France. Delta Air Lines and US Airways also carries out many operations from the airport, and all major airlines fly to Boston from all or the majority of their primary and secondary hubs. The distinctive central control tower, nearly a dozen stories high, is a local landmark with its pair of segmented elliptical pylons and a six-story platform trussed between them.īoston serves as a focus city for JetBlue Airways. The airport has service to destinations in the United States, as well as Canada, the Cape Verde Islands, the Caribbean, Europe, and Mexico. It covers 2,400 acres (10 km²), has six runways, and employs an estimated 16,000 people. The airport serves as a focus city for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, US Airways, and JetBlue Airways. General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport ( IATA: BOS, ICAO: KBOS, FAA LID: BOS) in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partly in the Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts), is one of the 20 busiest airports in the U.S., with over 27 million passengers a year.