Southwest Airline 1455 Investigation



TABLE OF CONTENT

SOUTHWEST AIRLINE 14553

Introduction3

Controversies4

Discussion4

Injuries7

Probable Cause8

Dispute with city of Burbank10

Conclusion12

References14

SOUTHWEST AIRLINE 1455

Introduction

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV), is an American-based, cheap fare airline having it's headquarter in Dallas, Texas. The airline was established in 1967, by the half way through June 5, 2011 it became the biggest airline in the United States based upon local passenger carrier. Though it functioned with the Boeing 727 aircraft's for a small time through the 1970s and 1980s, among that time also 2012 the airline functioned only Boeing 737 aircrafts, as well as of September 30, 2011 became the prime operative of the 737 global having above 550 of these aircraft in facility, all functioning atypical of six flights per day. Southwest has 37,000 employees as of December 2011 and functions further than 3,300 flights per day. From January 2012, Southwest Airlines functions planned facility to 97 destinations in 42 states in United States of America.

It was 5thMarch, 2000, approximately 1810 hours (PST), A Boeing 737-300 of Southwest Airlines, Flight No: 1455, a flight from McCarran International Airport (LAS), Las Vegas, Nevada that overran the runway during arrival at Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport (BUR), Burbank, California. There were no life damages but the disaster struck the California Burbank airport nearly ruins that part of the city near the airport. The Southwest Airlines, National Transport Safety Board (NTSB) and The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), carried out the investigation on the crash to find the reasons of the disaster that struck Burbank Airport that day. Further detailed report on investigation and the Southwest Airlines carried out is given below.

Controversies

In June 2011, a March 25 demo of an in flight communication of the Southwest pilot Captain James Taylor seemingly accidentally spreading a dialogue with his co-pilot was at large to the media. The dialogue was sprinkled with obscene linguistic focussed at gay, bulky as well as mature flight assistants. According to the Southwest Airlines, the pilot was chastised, provisionally on hold without pay as well as acknowledged diversity instruction beforehand being restored. Captain Taylor correspondingly directed an e-mail confession to all of the Southwest's personnel, exclusively the crew centres they critiqued.

Leaving this incident the of 5th March, 2000, the southwest airlines follows another incident in 2005 more major than this incident where passenger life's were at risks and many seriously cautioned passengers were reported. (Access Intelligence, LLC 2002)

Discussion

Flight History

The Southwest Airliner having flight number 1455, Boeing 737 was scheduled as a passenger flight from Las Vegas, Nevada to Burbank, California that ran out of the runway during a landing attempt by the pilot, on March 5, 2000, carrying 137 passenger and 5 crew members in total 142. No one died in the accident. The aircraft finally stopped adjacent to a petrol station on the streets of the city.

Pre-Crash Details

The flight proceeded in excess of 2 hours late from the destination that is the airport in Las Vegas, Nevada at 1600 hours due to the inclement meteorological conditions in the area. When the aircraft was 35km north ...