Southwest airlines news accident record11/24/2023 : 1 Accident ILS Runway 31C chart for Chicago Midway International Airport, where the incident occurred. : 6–8 Ĭaptain Sutherland was the pilot flying (PF) and first officer Oliver was the pilot monitoring (PM). ![]() Neither pilot had been involved in any accident or incident before Flight 1248. The first officer had 8,500 flight hours (with 4,000 of them as a captain), with 2,000 of them on the Boeing 737. The first officer was 34-year-old Steven Oliver, who had been working for the airline since February 2003, having previously served as a captain for Mesaba Airlines from 1997 to 2003. He joined Southwest Airlines in August 1995 and had 15,000 flight hours, including 4,500 hours on the Boeing 737. The captain was 59-year-old Bruce Sutherland, who had been a U.S. It was powered by two CFM International CFM56-7B24 turbofan engines. The aircraft, a one-year-old Boeing 737-700 with tail number N471WN, was delivered to Southwest in July 2004. On December 8, 2005, the airplane slid off a runway at Chicago-Midway while landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic, killing a six-year-old boy. Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore, Maryland, to Chicago, Illinois, continuing on to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then to Las Vegas, Nevada. (re-registered as N286WN after repairs)īaltimore/Washington Int'l Thurgood Marshall Airport Runway overrun in snowstorm due to pilot error Review of Air Traffic records and interviews with controllers revealed that about 30 minutes prior to the accident the taxiway lights for "TWY J & Apron 2" were selected "off." This resulted in shutting off the lights for taxiways L and J taxiways T4 and T5 to the northeast of L the lights along the edge of the ramp parallel to J and the connector and circular area between Concourses B and C.N471WN, following its runway overrun at Chicago Midway Airport. ![]() About one minute after the airplane came to rest, the pilots noticed that the slides were deploying and passengers were evacuating and the captain announced on the public address system "okay don't evacuate flight attendants, do not evacuate" to which the first officer responded "oh they are already going." The FAs initiated the evacuation a short time later. The flight attendants stated that they did not know what was going on so began yelling, "heads down, stay down" as they tried to call the pilots but there was no power on the interphones. When the airplane stopped all the cabin lights went out for some time before the emergency lights came on. The pilot advised ATC that "we've cut the corner here and are off in the grass" and asked for ARFF equipment. Shortly after the airplane came to rest an audible alarm began sounding in the cockpit which the flight crew indicated they could not silence. The nosegear collapsed, and the airplane came to rest angled to the right, on the left nacelle, right wing tip, and nose. Three seconds later the airplane exited the taxiway into a grassy area with a large drainage ditch, east of the intersection of taxiways T4 and J. The crew was searching for the turn to the ramp when the airplane then turned back to the right to a heading of 090 degrees, consistent with the heading toward gate C20. Taxiway T4 was oriented about 045 degrees. About 15 seconds prior to the excursion the airplane began a left turn briefly to a heading of about 065 degrees. The flight crew reported that they had difficulty locating taxiway T4 as it appeared dark and there was glare from the terminal lights ahead. The captain reported he used landing lights to assist in the taxi along B and T3 and then extinguished the landing lights as the airplane crossed runway 13/31, but left the taxi lights on. ![]() ATC instructed the flight to taxi to the ramp (gate C20) via taxiway B, T3, and T4. The airplane landed normally on runway 20R and exited at taxiway B2. Nine of the 138 passengers and crew onboard received minor injuries during the evacuation and the airplane was substantially damaged. Southwest Airlines flight 31, a Boeing 737-300, N649SW, exited the taxiway while taxing to the gate and came to rest in a ditch at the Nashville International Airport, Tennessee, USA. Nashville International Airport, TN (BNA/KBNA), United States of America Hobby Airport, TX (HOU/KHOU), United States of America Nashville International Airport, TN (BNA) ( United States of America) Accident investigation report completed and information captured
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