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Southwest flight slides off runway
A southwest flight landing in Omaha has slid of the runway after landing bringing the airport to a screeching halt. All the passengers and crew are safe and being taken care of. (www.wfaa.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Been doing this for over 50 years, taxing in to Buf one night, down hill ramp, had to put that 737 in to full reverse to keep from going into terminal. Do this job long enough, it can happen to you. Hope not
Omaha resident here, albeit not involved in aviation nor airport ops. That weather, while it had been forecast to happen that afternoon, came up in a hurry. I had to drive across town at 1230, and the roads were wet but not slick. By 1400, there was almost 1/4" of ice on every exposed horizontal surface.
My guess — and that's all it is — is that conditions deteriorated quickly enough that the maintenance crews didn't have time to get ahead of the problem. If so, maybe they should have closed the airport before landing that flight, although all the nearby airports were having the same problem, so diverting the flight might not have been easy...I don't know. But I sure wouldn't call it pilot error.
Bottom line is that nobody was hurt, and it sounds like the aircraft didn't even take a whole lot of damage.
My guess — and that's all it is — is that conditions deteriorated quickly enough that the maintenance crews didn't have time to get ahead of the problem. If so, maybe they should have closed the airport before landing that flight, although all the nearby airports were having the same problem, so diverting the flight might not have been easy...I don't know. But I sure wouldn't call it pilot error.
Bottom line is that nobody was hurt, and it sounds like the aircraft didn't even take a whole lot of damage.
Didn’t a UA slides off the end of a runway in similar fashion??
yep.
https://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/1_year/new/71141/United_B739_at_Chicago_on_Jan_19th_2019_overran_runway_on_landing
https://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/1_year/new/71141/United_B739_at_Chicago_on_Jan_19th_2019_overran_runway_on_landing
Problem lies with how runways are deiced. The trucks turn off the end of the runway, so the opposite departure end gets substantially less fluid than the rest of the runway. Braking action may have been good on the rest of the runway but completely nil down at the end.
This was in my hometown. Landed on 14R without any problems, hit a patch of black ice while taxiing, and went off the taxiway.