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[18] [19] Both the captain and first officer had clean safety records when the crash occurred and were experienced pilots. [6] [19] Wheel marks left on the ground, and initial reports from passengers and firefighters indicate that the plane was airborne briefly. [5] [20] When during the sequence the fire started is unclear.
Seating chart for American Airlines Flight 1420 created by the NTSB, revealing the location of passengers and lack of injury, severity of injuries, and deaths. The aircraft involved in the incident was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration N215AA [2]), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft.
Belz decided to head to Newton instead of continuing to Des Moines as planned, to avoid the bad weather. While trying to land at Newton the aircraft entered low cloud, attempted an overshoot and the pilot lost control, impacting a lone oak tree in a corn field. [3] The airplane was also short of fuel at the time of the crash. [3]
The crew attempted to turn the now burning aircraft towards the runway with the intent of an emergency landing. However, the faulty charts led them to crash into high ground five miles east-north-east of the airfield [12] at about 23:32 UTC. [13] All 30 passengers (22 Dutch, 6 German, 1 British and 1 Irish [5]) and the 10 crew died. Rescue ...
In the NTSB's final report, the probable cause of SAS Flight 901 states that "The flightcrew's disregard for prescribed procedures for monitoring and controlling of airspeed during the final stages of the approach and (b) decision to continue the landing rather than to execute a missed approach, and (c) overreliance on the autothrottle speed ...
29 December 1945: RAF York C.1 MW134 crashed into Beehive Hill at Bashley due to a loss of control while attempting a three-engined overshoot at RAF Holmsley South, killing one. [1] [5] 11 April 1946: RAF York C.1 MW180 crashed on landing at RAF Lyneham after the landing gear collapsed; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off ...
The overshoot concerned air traffic controllers enough that they had the pilots perform a series of maneuvers to confirm the pilots were in control of the plane, as well as to verify that the transponder target they were receiving on their radar was indeed Flight 188.
This was the first Southwest Airlines accident in the 35-year history of the company to result in a fatality. The previous major incident was in 2000, when Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 overran a runway in Burbank, California , injuring 43 and narrowly avoiding a catastrophe; the aircraft ended up outside a Chevron gas station.