Boeing 737-300 accident near Burbank, CA
On March 6, 2000, a Boeing 737-300 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Burbank, CA. 2 people were seriously injured. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- March 6, 2000
- Place
- Burbank, CA
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737-300 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 0 fatal, 2 serious, 42 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 34.170°N, 118.341°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001212X20606
Official records · DCA00MA030
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
- Investigation page: status, final report and safety recommendations
Air traffic control records
- ATC 3 - Group Chairman Factual Report: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
The Board's full report is available at http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/publictn.htm On March 5, 2000, about 1811 Pacific standard time (PST), Southwest Airlines, Inc., flight 1455, a Boeing 737-300 (737), N668SW, overran the departure end of runway 8 after landing at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (BUR), Burbank, California. The airplane touched down at approximately 182 knots, and about 20 seconds later, at approximately 32 knots, collided with a metal blast fence and an airport perimeter wall. The airplane came to rest on a city street near a gas station off of the airport property. Of the 142 persons on board, 2 passengers sustained serious injuries; 41 passengers and the captain sustained minor injuries; and 94 passengers, 3 flight attendants, and the first officer sustained no injuries. The airplane sustained extensive exterior damage and some internal damage to the passenger cabin. During the accident sequence, the forward service door (1R) escape slide inflated inside the airplane; the nose gear collapsed; and the forward dual flight attendant jumpseat, which was occupied by two flight attendants, partially collapsed. The flight, which was operating on an instrument flight rules flight plan, was conducted under 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 121. Visual meteorological conditions (VMC) prevailed at the time of the accident, which occurred in twilight lighting conditions.
Probable cause
the flight crew's excessive airspeed and flightpath angle during the approach and landing and its failure to abort the approach when stabilized approach criteria were not met. Contributing to the accident was the controller's positioning of the airplane in such a manner as to leave no safe options for the flight crew other than a go-around maneuver.
From Wikipedia
Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 was a scheduled passenger flight from
McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, to Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, Burbank, California, that overran the runway during landing on March 5, 2000. The aircraft, a Boeing 737–300, registration N668SW, came to rest on a city street adjacent to a Chevron gas station. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the accident was due to the pilots attempting to land with excessive speed. They also found that the air traffic controller placed them in a position from which their only option was a go around. Two of the passengers were seriously injured, and there were many minor injuries. As a result of the accident, the airport installed an engineered materials arrestor system at the east end of the incident runway. The aircraft was written off, making the incident the 10th hull loss of a Boeing 737–300. This was the first major accident in the airline's 29-year history.
Text from Wikipedia, “Southwest Airlines Flight 1455”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
