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headwind during landing, and Flight 1420 was cleared for a visual approach to this runway. Because the plane was already close to the airport, the controller had to direct it away to line it up for a landing on 4R. As a result, Flight 1420 faced away from the airport for several minutes, and due to the plane's weather radar capabilities being limited to a narrow and forward-facing field of view, the flight crew could not see thunderstorms approaching the airport during their turn. As the aircraft approached, a severe thunderstorm arrived over the airport, and at 23:44 (11:44 pm), the first officer notified the controller that the crew had lost sight of the runway. The controller then cleared the aircraft to land on 4R using an
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families." About 10 years following the crash, David E. Rapoport, an attorney who was a member of the court-appointed
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, surmised, "after all these years, is still a matter reasonable people who are fully informed may disagree on." However, Rapoport concluded that there should be a consensus understanding among all parties involved that "flight operations should not be conducted in the terminal area when thunderstorms are on the flight path, and nonfrangible objects should not be placed where it is foreseeable an aircraft may go."
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575:(CVR) was reviewed, and no sounds consistent with the spoiler arming or automatically deploying were recorded by the CVR. The NTSB conducted two test flights of American Airlines MD-80 aircraft, which confirmed that manually arming the spoiler created an audible "click" noise—distinguishable from noises made by automatic deployment of the system—that could be clearly heard on CVR playback. The NTSB also conducted ground tests on similar aircraft, including another American Airlines
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gear. About 65% of Flight 1420's weight would have been supported by the plane's landing gear if the spoilers had been deployed, but without the spoilers, this number dropped to only 15%. With the light loading of the landing gear, the aircraft's brakes were ineffective at slowing down the plane, which continued down the runway at high speed. Directional control was lost when
Captain Buschmann applied too much
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693:$ 3.4 million, and $ 4.2 million were made." These three Plaintiffs pursued, but ultimately lost their claims for punitive damages. The District Court granted summary judgment in American Airlines' favor on punitive damages, finding under Arkansas law that there was insufficient evidence to submit the issue to a jury to decide. This ruling was later upheld on appeal.
708:. The airport was found to have failed to comply with airport safety standards. Buschmann's estate presented evidence that the spoilers were deployed and had malfunctioned (not through the captain's fault), and that the aircraft did not encounter turbulence. The jury rejected the airport's argument that Buschmann was at fault in causing his own death.
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Plaintiffs were ultimately tried to a jury, and awards of $ 5.7 million,
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are essential to ensure the plane's ability to stop within the confines of a wet runway, especially one that is being subjected to strong and gusting winds. Spoilers disrupt the airflow over the wings, prevent them from generating lift, and cause more of the plane's weight to be borne by the landing
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Officer Origel stated, "We're down. We're sliding!" Because the pilots failed to arm the autospoiler, the spoilers did not deploy automatically on landing, and the flight crew did
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issued a weather advisory indicating severe thunderstorms in an area that included the Little Rock airport, and the flight crew witnessed lightning while on approach. The flight crew discussed the weather reports, but decided to expedite the approach rather than diverting to the designated alternate
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Buschmann and 8 of the plane's 139 passengers were immediately killed in the crash; another two passengers died in the hospital in the weeks that followed. First Officer Origel, three of the four flight attendants, and 41 passengers sustained serious injuries, the remaining flight attendant
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Air traffic control at Little Rock had originally told Flight 1420 to expect an approach to runway 22L. At 23:39 (11:39 pm), a controller advised the crew of a wind-shear alert and a change in wind direction. As a result, Captain
Buschmann requested a change to Runway 4R, so the flight would have a
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along the planned flight path. Adverse weather caused the plane that was intended for Flight 1420 to be delayed in arriving at DFW. Airline policy set a maximum pilot duty time of 14 hours, and Flight 1420 was the flight crew's last flight of the day. The first officer notified the airline's flight
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as a contributing factor. The captain had been awake for 16 hours that day; research indicates that after being awake for 13 hours, pilots make considerably more mistakes. The time of the crash occurred several hours after both pilots' usual bedtime. The first officer reported feeling tired that
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Buschmann of all fault for the crash, but the NTSB has not changed its probable-cause ruling; additionally, American Airlines admitted liability for the crash, and had "paid many millions of dollars in damages to the passengers and their
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during heavy precipitation, and did not have an attenuation alert to warn the flight crew of system impairment during heavy rainfall. The radar weather system had a forward-looking design that offered the flight crew only a limited field of view in front of the aircraft.
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limit for landing in reduced visibility on a wet runway. Despite the excessive crosswind and two wind-shear reports, Captain Buschmann did not abandon the aircraft's approach into Little Rock, deciding to continue the approach to 4R instead.
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was Michael Origel, age 35. The first officer had been with the airline for less than a year, and had only 182 hours of flight time with American Airlines as an MD-80 pilot. However, the first officer had trained as a pilot with the
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dispatcher that the flight crew would, therefore, be unable to depart after 23:16 (11:16 pm). The airline substituted another MD-80, tail number N215AA, which allowed Flight 1420 to depart DFW at 22:40 (10:40 pm).
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and crashed. Nine of the 145 people aboard were immediately killed—the captain and eight passengers. Two more passengers died in the hospital in the following weeks.
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consolidated the various federal lawsuits for consolidated and coordinated pretrial proceedings, and assigned the case to United States District Court Senior Judge
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in the UK and elsewhere around the world). The dramatization was broadcast in the United States with the title "Fatal Landing". The flight was also included in a
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1299:Gase, Thomas (November 12, 2022).
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2960:Northwest Airlink Flight 5719
2848:L'Express Airlines Flight 508
2707:Cubana de AviaciĂłn Flight 310
2587:Britannia Airways Flight 226A
2487:Martha's Vineyard plane crash
2457:American Airlines Flight 1420
2147:American Airlines Flight 1420
2123:American Airlines Flight 1572
2067:Northwest Airlines Flight 255
2025:Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145
1794:1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
1749:1973 Nantes mid-air collision
1654:Allegheny Airlines Flight 853
1399:Photo of the Crashed Aircraft
1336:. Season 8. Episode 2. 2009.
1046:. Season 1. Episode 2. 2003.
799:
410:Flight and weather conditions
371:Flight 1420 was commanded by
340:Pratt & Whitney JT8D-217C
330:N215AA), a derivative of the
272:American Airlines Flight 1420
22:American Airlines Flight 1420
3852:History of American Airlines
3227:Naval Station Guantanamo Bay
3089:Eastwind Airlines Flight 517
2948:American Airlines Flight 102
2687:Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509
2527:Pakistani Atlantic shootdown
2497:All Nippon Airways Flight 61
2447:Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316
2427:Turkish Airlines Flight 5904
2397:Minerva Airlines Flight 1553
2248:Caspian Airlines Flight 6936
2163:2001 Linate Airport disaster
2038:Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122
1892:Eastern Air Lines Flight 494
1770:Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
1662:1970 Dominicana air disaster
1404:Passenger manifest of AA1420
715:
667:Eastern District of Arkansas
597:Little Rock National Airport
280:Little Rock National Airport
199:Little Rock National Airport
71:Little Rock National Airport
58:in inclement weather due to
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3125:New Hampshire Learjet crash
3119:Airborne Express Flight 827
3095:Delta Air Lines Flight 1288
2818:Los Angeles runway disaster
2795:Death of Stevie Ray Vaughan
2777:Northwest Airlines Flight 5
2667:SATA Air Açores Flight 530M
2232:Delta Air Lines Flight 1086
2131:Delta Air Lines Flight 1288
1969:Japan Air System Flight 451
1916:Garuda Indonesia Flight 035
1879:1983 Madrid runway disaster
1799:Southern Airways Flight 242
1720:Delta Air Lines Flight 9570
1683:Southern Airways Flight 932
1342:National Geographic Channel
1052:National Geographic Channel
379:in 1972, and served in the
297:
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3359:Pacific Southwest Airlines
3314:American Overseas Airlines
3212:South Dakota Learjet crash
3183:United Airlines Flight 863
3013:American Eagle Flight 4184
2989:Federal Express Flight 705
2977:United Express Flight 6291
2895:American Eagle Flight 5456
2830:United Airlines Flight 585
2697:Indian Airlines Flight 814
2617:South Dakota Learjet crash
2155:Alaska Airlines Flight 261
1884:Ozark Air Lines Flight 650
1762:Delta Air Lines Flight 723
1736:Southern Airways Flight 49
1638:Ozark Air Lines Flight 982
1630:Ozark Air Lines Flight 965
1394:Pre-crash photos of N215AA
1108:109 F.Supp.2d 1022
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1137:231 F.Supp.2d 852
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977:Allied Pilots Association
608:Dallas/Fort Worth Airport
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503:Simulation of the landing
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2256:2021 Houston MD-87 crash
1338:Discovery Channel Canada
1048:Discovery Channel Canada
677:from American Airlines.
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581:Palm Springs, California
489:
433:National Weather Service
3898:Transpacific Route Case
3862:American Airlines Group
3384:Trans Caribbean Airways
3148:FedEx Express Flight 14
3113:Quincy Airport disaster
2657:Asian Spirit Flight 100
2224:Air Algérie Flight 5017
2009:Cebu Pacific Flight 387
955:"FAA Registry (N215AA)"
764:Air Crash Investigation
524:The aircraft continued
452:) or returning to DFW.
445:air traffic controllers
284:McDonnell Douglas MD-82
126:McDonnell Douglas MD-82
2407:Korean Air Flight 1533
2139:Korean Air Flight 1533
1074:MIT Lincoln Laboratory
698:wrongful-death damages
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622:The NTSB report cited
573:cockpit voice recorder
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3309:America West Airlines
3299:All American Aviation
3154:Korean Air Flight 801
2877:CommutAir Flight 4821
2033:2006 Mexico drug bust
1908:Aeroméxico Flight 498
1871:Air Canada Flight 797
1855:Aeroméxico Flight 110
1847:Aeroméxico Flight 230
1807:Air Canada Flight 189
1754:Aeroméxico Flight 229
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2577:Necon Air Flight 128
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2200:Atlasjet Flight 4203
1823:Alitalia Flight 4128
1305:Vallejo Times-Herald
1245:. February 4, 2011.
1159:351 F.3d 874
1040:"Racing the Storm".
771:season-eight (2009)
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3160:Fine Air Flight 101
3066:Tower Air Flight 41
2983:Green Ramp disaster
2836:Merion air disaster
2725:► 2000
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2507:Air Fiji Flight 121
2437:Avianca Flight 9463
2208:Spanair Flight 5022
2176:Lion Air Flight 538
1940:Alitalia Flight 404
1712:EgyptAir Flight 763
781:The Weather Channel
773:Science of Disaster
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2826:(February 17 1991)
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2282:Uni Air Flight 873
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1993:ValuJet Flight 592
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3730:Flight 5966
3712:Flight 5456
3707:Flight 5452
3702:Flight 4184
3697:Flight 3379
3692:Flight 3378
3674:Flight 6780
3669:Flight 6001
3664:Flight 1572
3659:Flight 1502
3654:Flight 1420
3588:Flight 383
3285:Mergers and
3208:(July 1999)
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3185:(June 1998)
3166:John Denver
3150:(July 1997)
3091:(June 1996)
3003:(July 1994)
2997:(June 1994)
2909:(July 1992)
2850:(July 1991)
1315:December 2,
1253:January 16,
939:January 12,
793:Flightmares
663:Henry Woods
367:Flight crew
360:attenuation
346:jet engines
292:Little Rock
203:Little Rock
195:Destination
104: /
60:pilot error
3980:Categories
3888:Reservisor
3770:E. L. Cord
3723:Connection
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3644:Flight 924
3639:Flight 910
3634:Flight 723
3629:Flight 711
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3584:Flight 331
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3559:Flight 102
3528:Flight 63
3514:Flight 009
3441:AAdvantage
3408:Facilities
3399:US Airways
3085:(May 1996)
2318:Boeing 717
2304:Operators
1561:Boeing 717
1218:airlaw.com
800:References
612:Greg Feith
510:autobrakes
389:Boeing 727
238:Fatalities
222:Passengers
92:92°11′58″W
89:34°44′11″N
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3554:Flight 96
3549:Flight 77
3532:July 1943
3524:Flight 28
3519:Flight 11
3493:Flight 1
3477:Incidents
3420:AA Center
1598:incidents
1284:March 10,
1087:March 10,
1018:March 10,
787:, as did
716:Aftermath
646:crosswind
542:frangible
483:crosswind
448:airport (
381:Air Force
278:(DFW) to
254:Survivors
214:Occupants
158:Call sign
3958:Arkansas
3946:Aviation
3916:Category
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3683:American
3509:Flight 2
3487:Airlines
3485:American
3446:AAirpass
3434:Programs
3415:AA Arena
3374:Reno Air
3339:MetroJet
3277:Oneworld
1570:Military
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1141:archived
1112:archived
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930:Archived
754:(called
343:turbofan
298:Aircraft
246:Injuries
207:Arkansas
132:Operator
117:Aircraft
79:Arkansas
39:Accident
3932:Portals
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1425:Archive
1408:Archive
1363:Archive
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624:fatigue
618:Fatigue
470:spoiler
373:Captain
326:MD-82 (
153:AAL1420
52:Summary
3743:People
3455:Brands
3279:member
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2693:Dec 24
2683:Dec 22
2673:Dec 21
2663:Dec 11
2643:Nov 12
2623:Oct 31
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