Accident analysis: Southwest 1248
Majed Alwehaibi
Middle Tennessee State University
Professor Wendy Beckman
March 1, 2015
The 8th of December 2005 was a hard day for Southwest Airlines (SWA) but was catastrophic for the family that lost a child and for the aviation industry. At that day, SWA flight number 1248 overran the departure end of the runway number 31C during landing at Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW), Chicago, Illinois. The Boing 737 broke through two fences then onto a roadway. The plane came to a stop after hitting some cars. A kid was killed and the passengers of the cars and the airplane received some serious and minor injuries. The plane left Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), Baltimore, Maryland about 6 p.m. after two hours delay due to the bad weather conditions at Chicago. That accident happened for the first flight of a long scheduled three-day trip. The pilot was in charge of flying while the co-pilot was in charge of monitoring. Before taking off, they received the latest weather updates for MDW, which indicates that the active runway for them would be 31C with mixed braking conditions. About 30 minutes before landing, the co-pilot entered the runway conditions, weather conditions and winds information into the OPC to figure out the needed distance for landing. Due to the mix conditions the co-pilot suggested two more scenarios of fair and poor braking. The pilot and the co-pilot also
Terrorism. Instead of hitting the White House, the plane landed in a field located in Arlington County,
Hollywood does a great job portraying the build up and outcome of the plane crash by giving specific details and showing the effect the crash had on local citizens. Other than the fact that the crash had happened by clipping a tree instead of getting struck by lightning, Hollywood accurately depicts the Marshall plane crash. The movie talks about the game they had before the crash against Xavier, about them entering the plane, and the weather conditions which were “Rainy and foggy. Visibility was poor. According to reports, witnesses remember seeing the plane come in low from the west, but lost sight after it passed over the hill” (Shell 1). The weather conditions greatly impacted the outcome of the plane crash. It was not an engine failure, gas leak, etc.. The crash was caused due to the inclement weather in the area. In both the movie and the actual event the
The aircraft began banking right and the Captain momentarily fixed it before banking hard right again. I think at this point something caused the aircraft to bank right therefore causing the Captain to become spatially disoriented. He began banking harder right thinking he was fixing the situation, but was actually making it worse. The 1st officer tried correcting the Captain by saying “Overbank. Overbank. Overbank”. However, the Captain seemed to ignore him and continued steering the aircraft to the right to a maximum bank angle of 111 degrees. At this point several factors were in play; the Captain was overconfident in his abilities, the first officer was not confident in his own abilities, and the engineer was quiet the whole time. Not giving any input in the situation until seconds before impact when he said “retard power”. The crewmembers were unable to recover from the overbank and impacted the Red Sea at 416
This crash is considered to be the second deadliest aviation accident at the time in the US.
At dusk, the pilot and passengers load the aircraft and departed the airport. The flight departed under visual flight rules and visual meteorological conditions. The weather was reported at
Lastly, the fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The flight that crashed was United 93. The hijackers intended to hit the white house, but passengers rebelled against the hijackers because they were concerned about the president's safety.(complex). Many passengers called family members to tell them what was happening. Forty people were killed in the crash. (simple)
The invaders sent two of the airliners into the towers of the World Trade Center, located in the southern part of Manhattan in New York. American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the tower of the world Trade Center. As a result, the two towers collapsed, causing severe destruction of surrounding structures. A third plane was sent to the Pentagon, near Washington. Passengers and crew of the fourth airliner (Flight 93 United Airlines) have tried to take control plane from terrorists, and the plane crashed in a field near the town of Shanksville in Pennsylvania. This day
TWA Flight 800 Crash “TWA Flight 800, left New York and was headed to France. The airplane was a Boeing 747-100 and had logged more than 93,000 miles. This was the captain’s first flight as captain. ”[Billings, 46] The flight was delayed a little more than an hour due to a problem with baggage, but eventually took off at 8:18 PM on July 17, 1996 with 230 people on board.
This was a wise decision as landing in a tailwind is one of the most precarious situations a pilot can face, but the added workload of developing a new landing pattern from scratch added one more layer of stress and pressure to the issues that had been mounting since Dallas Ft. Worth. The alternate runway pattern added an additional ten minutes to the pilot’s 2 hour delay. The pilot workload exponentially increased as the aircraft entered in a new pattern and began to have great difficulty establishing a visual fix on the airport. When asked if the aircraft was going to shoot an ILS approach or continue on visual the captain elected to remain on a visual approach. Afterward it can be guessed that Captain Buschman didn’t expect the storm to intensify even further as he neared the field. The aircrew lost sight of the field as the storm worsened and was given approach vectors by ATC. The flight deck voice recorder indicated there was confusion between the pilots and there was a disparity between what one pilot was observing as opposed to the other. (NTSB 2001) As the aircraft finally was lined up final approach the runway visibility dropped to less than 1 mile with a runway visual range of 3000 feet. The crew had a brief disagreement on whether to continue the landing and elected to attempt it. On approach wind were gusting at 45 knots. (NTSB
American Airlines flight 1420 crashed in Little Rock, Arkansas. The crash killed 11 people, after running off the runway and impacting an approach lighting structure. The causes of the crash are still being investigated but the likely causes include the plane touching down 2000 feet passed the runway threshold, the rapidly deteriorating weather, and a fatigued flight crew.
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This proposal addresses the needed steps to be taken in order for Southwest Airlines to see continued growth in the airline industry. Southwest Airlines has been able to remain one of the most profitable airlines in the industry for an extended period of time. Even with the hindrance of the 2001 terrorist attacks involving airplanes and the U.S recession of 2008, Southwest has continued to see strong revenue growth. Meanwhile, other companies were experiencing major losses and in some cases folding. Southwest Airlines has capitalized on the company’s strength of being the top low cost
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