Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 (N668SW) was a scheduled passenger flight from McCarran International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas, Nevada to Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (BUR), Burbank, California that overran the runway during landing.
On March 5, 2000 at 6:11pm Pacific Standard Time Southwest Flight 1455, a Boeing 737-3T5, landing on Runway 8, overran the end of the runway while landing at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport. It crashed through ...
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Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 (N668SW) was a scheduled passenger flight from McCarran International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas, Nevada to Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (BUR), Burbank, California that overran the runway during landing.
On March 5, 2000 at 6:11pm Pacific Standard Time Southwest Flight 1455, a Boeing 737-3T5, landing on Runway 8, overran the end of the runway while landing at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport. It crashed through a metal blast wall and then through the airport perimeter wall and came to rest on Hollywood Way, a four-lane city street, near a Chevron gas station. Of the 142 airplane occupants, 2 received serious injuries, and 42 received minor injuries.
The NTSB concluded that the probable cause for the accident was excessive flight speed and too high of a glidepath, and the flight crew's failure to abort the approach when conditions were not met for a stable landing. Additional responsibility was placed on the flight controller's positioning of the...
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