Southwest Airline Boeing 737-7H4 plane crash
Key facts
- Airline
- Southwest Airline
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737-7H4
- Location
- Chicago (Illinois), USA
- Date
- 8th December, 2005
- People on board
- 103
- Fatality on board
- 0
- Ground fatality
- 1
Accident account
A jetliner from Southwest Airlines was performing a passenger flight from Baltimore to Chicago, with 98 passengers and 5
crew members onboard, when it crashed after landing at Midway-Chicago International Airport. The nose landing gear
collapsed after the aircraft touched down. Then, The plane went off the end of the runway and slammed through a fence before
striking two vehicles. One person in a car was killed while 8 other people in both cars were injured.
Onboard, two passengers were injured.
The plane landed in very bad conditions: in extremely low visibility and on a short, snow-covered runway, during a snow
storm.
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Accident location
The aircraft (Boeing 737-7H4)
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