Runway Overrun and Collision, Southwest Airlines Flight 1248, Chicago Midway International Airport 

"Southwest Flight 1248, have you cleared the runway?" "Uh, tower, define 'cleared'."

They were distracted by the giant man on the port side at 0.11.

On December 8, 2005, the airplane slid off a runway at Chicago-Midway while landing in a snowstorm. WX went below minimums for the ILS 13C approach into MDW leaving them to do the 31C. This gave them a slight tail wind. Touchdown, was down within the TDZ, BUT with only 4500' remaining - 5300' was required to stop when the numbers were calculated with the tailwind, weight and TR's taken into consideration. It is standard practice under FAR 25 that TR's NOT be used in tabulating landing distances. The PF stated he was unable to get the TR's out of the stowed position (a personal note if you are pulling hard on the TR levers the locking pins may become wedged in the power lever quadrant making it impossible for them to deploy. As a matter of practice I used and taught pilots to select depoly remove your hands until you had "6 lights" [as was the case in my a/c] then apply reverse thrust) The PNF said he was able to deploy the TR's without issue. The following is from the NTSB's findings. They are not my opinions - Probable Cause The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilots’ failure to use available reverse thrust in a timely manner to safely slow or stop the airplane after landing, which resulted in a runway overrun. This failure occurred because the pilots’ first experience and lack of familiarity with the airplane’s autobrake system distracted them from thrust reverser usage during the challenging landing. Contributing to the accident were Southwest Airlines’ 1) failure to provide its pilots with clear and consistent guidance and training regarding company policies and procedures related to arrival landing distance calculations; 2) programming and design of its on board performance computer, which did not present inherent assumptions in the program critical to pilot decision-making; 3) plan to implement new autobrake procedures without a familiarization period; and 4) failure to include a margin of safety in the arrival assessment to account for operational uncertainties. Also contributing to the accident was the pilots’ failure to divert to another airport given reports that included poor braking actions and a tailwind component greater than 5 knots. Contributing to the severity of the accident was the absence of an engineering materials arresting system, which was needed because of the limited runway safety area beyond the departure end of runway 31C.

Still better than connecting through O'Hare.

This is the only FDR I can find that it still recorded it

Late deployment of the TR’s that made all the difference. They must have just gotten distracted or something.

they were really late on thrust reversing

"what was that?" good question!

Thats bad because midway airport has a steel fence and the pilot could be seriously injured

Im going to the same airport... im flying to texas and now im terrified

Was someone in a car, adjacent to the fence, killed in this accident- or am I thinking of something else?

Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 be like:

I was unaware that NTSB investigates Microsoft Flight Simulator crashes. Seems like a waste of government resources to me.

Both pilot's had a pizza order in at Villa Rossa pizza on archer Avenue, and thought there was a drive thru.

Hit a car on a road and killed a passenger?

Forgot reversers ?

Sum Ting Wong!

ntsb thought he can track my adress

Unpopular opinion: I don't think the pilots are to blame. An airliner should be able to land on the numbers like they did and stop using manual braking, without the use of reverse thrust. It looks like they needed reverse thrust here and that might not even have been enough. Just look at that slow deceleration with full manual braking. Those pilots were screwed by whichever dispatcher let them use that runway with the factors at play. (weight, winds, runway length, contamination, etc)

SW 1248 requesting sanitation pumping truck for the cabin areas please, there is shit everywhere.

Cause?

the boeing 737 crasher

Maybe some great aviators from ATA Airlines who ruled Midway winters with 737/800s and 757/200-300s could have prevented these events. But they were DEPLORABLES ..... BAD.......BAD.......BAD............THEY LIKED THEIR AUTOBRAKES go anywhere, anytime, anyplace correctly

I think the NTSB should hire some people from Disney Pictures...this animation sucks.!!