Air Crash Investigation - Cleared for Disaster (S09E04)

USAir Flight 1493 was a scheduled United States (US) domestic passenger flight from Syracuse Hancock International Airport, New York to San Francisco International Airport, California that collided with SkyWest Flight 5569 upon landing at a scheduled stopover at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The evening of February 1, 1991, saw slow to moderate air traffic at LAX, but as the USAir 737 was on final approach, there were a series of abnormalities that occurred to distract the local controller, including an aircraft that inadvertently switched off the tower frequency and a misplaced flight progress strip which resulted in the SkyWest Metroliner being told to taxi into takeoff position while the USAir flight was landing on the same runway without the Metroliner ever being given a takeoff clearance.

Upon landing, the 737 collided with the twin-engine turboprop, continued down the runway with the turboprop crushed beneath it, exited the runway, and caught fire. Twenty-two of 89 people aboard the landing 737 and all 12 aboard the turboprop died. Rescue workers were on the scene of the fire within minutes and began the evacuation of the plane. Because of the intense fire three of the 737's six exits could not be used. Neither of the front exits were usable, which caused the front passengers to try to use the overwing exits. However, only one of the overwing exits was usable, which caused a backlog to form. Most of those aboard the 737 who died in the accident did so from asphyxiation in the post-crash fire.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the probable cause of the accident to be the procedures in use at the Los Angeles International Airport control tower provided inadequate redundancy that led to a loss of situational awareness by the local controller. The crash led directly to the use of the NTSB's recommendation of using different runways for takeoffs and landings at LAX.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Air Crash Investigation
• Air Emergency
• Mayday
• ACI
• Cleared for Disaster
• USAir
• Flight 1493
• LAX
• KLAX
• Los Angeles
• Skywest Airlines
• Flight 5569
• Runway Collision
• ATC Error
• Boeing 737-300
• N388US
• N683AV

[0x56]

Thanks for uploading this video.

[wasistdaswasdasist]

Thanks a lot for uploading Airflyer05Videos!!!!!

And thanks for the systematic naming of the videos!

[PenthouseDiaries]

Poor traffic controller Robin Walsh. by the way isn't she Rosanne's sister?

[dsbgods678]

@pcsx2emulator 300

[pcsx2emulator]

is it a 737-300?plz tell series no.



[7flybk]

they died because of toxic gases. why not just use the oxygen masks provided

[samantha3865]

SNOW BUTTON YAY

[timebandit71]

@RogueKnight12866 of course you would have done a better job under those conditions.....

[ValentinoCostal]

When I flew to Dallas, TX to meet my friends, I heard from the pilot that he need's to "go around" for another approach and land. As we landed, I saw another airplane being pulled off the runway that we were scheduled to land on. It was night, dark, and difficult to see. I watched this video and it made me feel how lucky that we didn't have that incursion.

[ellethekitty]

@RogueKnight12866 death penalty always has to include intent. clearly she had no intent. Human error happens. Especially when airlines want to keep operational costs down so they can give profits to shareholders. And tax payers don't ant to pay taxes. Nobody want to pay to have reasonable workloads for these people.

[darkstarnh]

Continuity error? at 3.53 we see the plange flying with gear down, at 4.17 he puts the gear down.