Boeing 737 accident near Kingston, JM
On December 23, 2009, a Boeing 737 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Kingston, JM. 14 people were seriously injured. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- December 23, 2009
- Place
- Kingston, JM
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 0 fatal, 14 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 17.936°N, 76.787°W
- NTSB ID
- 20091223X12805
Sequence of events
- Abnormal runway contact (Landing-flare/touchdown, defining event)
- Runway excursion (Landing-landing roll)
Conditions
- Local time
- 3:22 AM
- Light
- Night, dark
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC)
- Wind
- 320° at 14 kt
From Wikipedia
On 22 December 2009, an American Airlines Boeing 737-800, operating American Airlines Flight 331 (Washington, D.C.–Miami–Kingston, Jamaica) and carrying 148 passengers and 6 crew, overran runway 12 on landing at Kingston in poor weather. The plane continued on the ground outside the airport perimeter and broke apart on the beach. Of the 154 people on board, 85 people were injured, including 14 seriously.
Factors contributing to the crash include the speed of the aircraft upon landing and the plane touching down more than 4,000 feet (1,200 m) from the threshold of the runway. Contributing factors included American Airlines' failure to provide training on tailwind landings, and the FAA's failure to implement the NTSB's previous recommendation, following a previous fatal accident involving a tailwind landing attempt, that the FAA require commercial operators to train flight crews on tailwind landings.
Text from Wikipedia, “American Airlines Flight 331”, 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.
