![]() ![]() One Southwest flight crew flying to Midway decided to divert to another airport nine minutes before the accident, when the snowstorm got worse. ![]() ![]() Pilots who landed before Flight 1248 rated the condition of 31 Center as being “good” to “fair” on the front end of the runway and “poor” on the second half of the runway, investigators said. The accident killed a 6-year-old Indiana boy who was in a car with his family. The Boeing 737-700 skidded off the far end of runway 31 Center, crashed through fences and hit several vehicles on Central Avenue and 55th Street. The board said that Southwest did not make its pilots adequately aware of landing rules during sloppy runway conditions like those that existed on that wintry night at Midway. 8, 2005, accident found that much of the responsibility rested with the pilots, the safety board said Southwest contributed to the tragedy by failing to provide its pilot corps with “clear and consistent guidance and training” regarding company standards to calculate stopping distances in poor weather. The pilots’ lack of experience with the Boeing 737’s auto-braking system distracted them from engaging the aircraft’s engine thrust-reversers until just before the plane rolled off the runway, crashed through two fences and struck vehicles outside the airport, the board concluded in determining the likely cause of the accident.Ī child riding inside one of the cars was crushed to death and about 20 people on board the plane suffered minor injuries in the worst accident in Southwest’s history. WASHINGTON - The pilots of a Southwest Airlines jet that skidded off the end of an icy runway at Chicago’s Midway Airport in 2005 failed to safely slow the plane in a swirling snow storm because they were unfamiliar with a new braking procedure being used for the first time, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. ![]()
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