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Plane slides off runway at Midway
The NTSB releases video from April of a Southwest Airlines plane skidding off the end of a runway in Chicago (www.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The common denominator is Southwest Airlines... if the press, politicians, and FAA would get out of SWA's pocket then they would be seen for what they are.... unprofessional cowboys!!!
Wow! They got lucky. Yep, the runways at MDW are very short and the airport is surrounded by development. No room for errors. I love, love, love Southwest, but it does seem to me like their crews are in a BIG hurry much of the time. Not a good combo at a tight airport like MDW.
SNA (Orange County), has a considerably shorter runway where everything from 757's on down land without incident. Maybe training, or corporate culture need to be examined.
Midway has more wet/icy/snowy weather conditions (as opposed to KSNA's typically dry SoCal Wx), and it's CLOSELY surrounded by an urban setting and high fences. Maybe there's no difference; I'm not familiar with the area surrounding SNA, but the high frequency of landings at Midway also increases the chances of having an overrun like the ones we've seen over the last few years.
And "... slides off runway..." All I saw was a high speed exit short of the red runway end identification lights in the video were there usually is a taxiway and the interesting part was distorted. How did the camera know to time it exactly?? Is there more to see? Somewhere?
Pretty cool video angle anyways too!!!
Wet/icy runways always are tricky but the landing data is pretty accurate and the FAA now requires we add 15% extra to those numbers after the SWA accident at midway a few years back. BUT*** those landing data require a stabilized approach and sticking the landing on correct speeds at the touchdown point of the runway, this usually leads to a fairly firm landing. WAY too many pilots nowadays try to "play" for a nice pretty/soft landing and burn up a bunch of runway in the process.
For what my vote counts as, looks to me like they landed just a bit long, maybe the spoilers didn't deploy on the right side (further jeopardizing the long landing) and the wet runway just didn't allow them to get stopped. At the end, look like the pilot tried to just make a high speed turnoff onto the taxiway and save it, but was just a bit too fast still.
For what my vote counts as, looks to me like they landed just a bit long, maybe the spoilers didn't deploy on the right side (further jeopardizing the long landing) and the wet runway just didn't allow them to get stopped. At the end, look like the pilot tried to just make a high speed turnoff onto the taxiway and save it, but was just a bit too fast still.