The final moments of AA Ft#331 - flash representation

[malaise]

http://go-jamaica.com/news/reenactment-updated.html

AA is going to pay big time - this was pilot error

[Blue_Tires]

1. kind of similar to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_Airlines_Flight_3054

although the folks in Jamaica got out much, much luckier...

[malaise]

2. Yep very similar

but everyone survived in Jamaica and everyone died in Brazil. I remember that one well.

[DemoTex]

3. And then there was lucky Southwest Airlines at Burbank, Ca., on 3/5/2000.

On March 5, 2000 at 6:11 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Southwest Flight 1455, a Boeing 737-3T5, landing on Runway 8, overran the end of the runway while landing at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport. It crashed through a metal blast wall and then through the airport perimeter wall and came to rest on Hollywood Way, a four-lane city street, near a Chevron gas station. Of the 142 airplane occupants, 2 received serious injuries, and 42 received minor injuries.

The NTSB concluded that the probable cause for the accident was excessive flight speed and too high of a glidepath, and the flight crew's failure to abort the approach when conditions were not met for a stable landing. Additional responsibility was placed on the flight controller's positioning of the airplane as it approached the airport.

Months later, the pilots were fired as a result of this incident.<2> Southwest Airlines admitted the pilots' actions were negligent.<3>

At the time, a Southwest spokesperson termed it "the worst accident" in the airline's history.<4><5> Air safety experts and pilots suggested the incident was an example of a situation where "fast, steep, unstabilized approaches" are dangerous, and of how inadequate the safety margins around the Burbank runways are (as well as similar U.S. airports).<6>

The gas station missed by the aircraft was later closed and demolished due to safety concerns. (More ..)


Runway 08 is 5801 feet long

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1455

On edit: Damn! Gas sure was cheap way back then. Who was that Texas oilman/Governor running for president about then?

[hlthe2b]

4. Unbelievably, the gas prices were the first thing that caught my eye!

I guess that shows my priorities....;)