Southwest Airlines Flight 1455

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Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 was a scheduled passenger flight from McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, to Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, Burbank, California, that overran the runway during landing on March 5, 2000. The aircraft, a Boeing 737–300, registration N668SW, came to rest on a city street adjacent to a Chevron gas station. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the accident was due to the pilots attempting to land with excessive speed. They also found that the air traffic controller placed them in a position from which their only option was a go around. Two of the passengers were seriously injured, and there were many minor injuries. As a result of the accident, the airport installed an engineered materials arrestor system at the east end of the incident runway. The aircraft was written off, making the incident the 10th hull loss of a Boeing 737–300. This was the first major accident in the airline's 29-year history.

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