Date: | Sunday 5 March 2000 |
Time: | 18:11 |
Type: | Boeing 737-3T5 |
Owner/operator: | Southwest Airlines |
Registration: | N668SW |
MSN: | 23060/1069 |
Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
Engine model: | CFMI CFM56-3B1 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 142 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, NV (LAS/KLAS) |
Destination airport: | Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Flight 1455 was vectored for a visual approach to runway 08 with a restriction to remain at or above 3,000 feet amsl until passing the Van Nuys VOR beacon, located about 6 miles from the runway. Radar data suggest that the flight began its descent from 3,000 feet about 4 miles from the runway. FDR data suggest that the flight's descent angle from 3,000 feet to touchdown was in excess of 6 degrees. In comparison, the ILS flight path angle for runway 08 is 3 degrees. The crew was cleared to land by Burbank Tower and also advised that the wind was from 210 degrees at six knots. Touchdown speed was 182 knots. The aircraft could not be stopped on the remaining runway length and overran. It crashed through the perimeter fence at a speed of 32 knots and ended up on a highway. 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.
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."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | NTSB AAB-02-04 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 2 years and 3 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
SKYbrary NTSB-AAB-02-05
Location
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photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000; (publicdomain)
photo (c) NTSB; Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport, CA (BUR/KBUR); March 2000
photo (c) Peter Frei; Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport, NV (LAS); 19 October 1995
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