737 Overshoot Chicago's Midway Airport
 

CNN Reports 737 off the end of runway 02:03 UTC at Chicago's Midway Airport.

KMDW 090153Z 23003KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV002 M04/M05 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP191 R31C/4000V4500FT SNINCR 1/10 P0000 T10391050


:ugh:

It was Southwest, unsure of flight number. Live on CNN.

No injuries reported as yet, it was on landing. Very heavy snow falling.

Standard stupid statements by reporters. “Why were they allowed to land!” etc.

Flight was coming in from Baltimore, did hit one car.

It was at MDW Chicken Noodle News

Plane slides off runway at Midway

Thursday, December 8, 2005; Posted: 9:03 p.m. EST (02:03 GMT)


Emergency personnel work at the scene where an airliner slid off a runway Thursday in Chicago. CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- A Southwest Airlines jet slid off the runway during a driving snowstorm at Chicago's Midway Airport and slid into at least one vehicle at a nearby intersection on Thursday night, a spokeswoman for Chicago's Department of Aviation said.

Flight 1248, which was arriving from Baltimore, slid through a fence separating the runway from the intersection, spokeswoman Wendy Abrams said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

It was SWA at Midway not O'Hare,
Everybody evacuated with two injuries

dont mean to be nit picky but 'crash' is such a harsh word to use especially if you only see the title and unable to read the rest, could someone maybe change the title to runway excursion?
Maybe im just an alarmist?

KMDW 090153Z 23003KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV002 M04/M05 A3004 RMK AO2 SLP191 R31C/4000V4500FT SNINCR 1/10 P0000 T10391050

KMDW 090137Z 090124 07010KT 1SM -SN BR SCT003 OVC006
TEMPO 0203 1/2SM SN FZFG VV003
FM0300 03008KT 3SM -SN BKN007 OVC012
TEMPO 0305 1SM -SN BR
FM0500 33007KT 5SM -SN BKN010 OVC015
FM0800 33012KT P6SM BKN020
FM1200 29010KT P6SM BKN030
FM1800 24012KT P6SM SCT030


All Paxs and crew on board are safe but apparently a father and child that were in a car that was in collision with the aircraft are "seriously injured". Also appears that the gear collapsed at some point of the roll out.

Not sure of the exact runway alignments at KMDW, but the North-Westerly runway was operational at the time of the incident despite the fact that winds were out of the east.

I used to fly 72s in and out of Midway. Even on good weather days the pucker factor was very high. In the heavy snow that is showing on TV tonight, all I can say is MAN!

Just damn glad it wasn’t me. No room for error on that airport for a large (727, 737, 320 etc.) airplane.

PS. Didn’t see the first post said ORD. Yes the accident is at MDW Midway. Runway is 6,255 ft.

Hell it wasn't fun in a Sabre 65, the Falcon 900 or the Falcon 50.

Cardheat, it was the nose gear.

Nosegear collapsed
 

Plane is sitting at the traffic lights just outside the airport fence. Nose of the plane is on the ground. Car is under the right engine. 8 inches of snow by 7:00pm tonight. Still coming down very heavy.

Newarksmells

Trentino, your demeanor is admirable, but it looks pretty 'crashy' to me.
One engine torn-up for sure, nose gear collapsed, cars crushed, leading edge of starboard wing looks bad. Yipes - I've a good friend who's a Capt for SWA in MDW, hope it's not him.

MDW used to scare me to death in the MD-80. :eek:

They're now saying on CNN that the FAA have announced the flight skidded off of runway 13C on landing. 13C??? Anyone familiar?

They've now amended this to 31C. 6500 ft.

OH MY GOD! I have just heard the ultimate incredibly insanely stupid question by a reporter.

Male reporter; “By all accounts the airplane ran off the end of the runway, through the fence and through the sound barrier.” (The sound barrier he was referring to is an acoustical {sound} barrier fence.)

Female reporter; “The SOUND BARRIER, isn’t that really fast? Why were the pilots flying that fast on landing?”

Male reporter; Long pause, then he explained the difference.

Now that was priceless.:p

Not sure what you're asking.

But, there are three 13-31 runways: 13L-31R, 13C-31C, 13R-31L.

Go to to airnav.com and enter KMDW to see the runway configuration.

That would be 31C. That's where the jet is. Bad news wind-component-wise. I would assume that MDW simply had ops aligned with ORD landing direction - not ideal.

Interestingly, AA cancelled earlier flights into MDW due wx, but the -80 is no match stopping-wise for the 737.

KC-10, sorry for the confusion, they'd been saying all along that it was a North-Westerly runway and then they come out with 13C. They've now corrected this. Thanks for the link.

RRAAMJET, long time no drinks with you. (Need to something about that.)

That was the one really great thing about the 72, great brakes. But on a snow covered runway, at Midway who knows?

I know for sure I wouldn't try it in an 80. But then we have a big base just up the road, making div. easy; kind of factors into your mindset.

All I can say is, glad I'm not flying tonight in Illinois...poor guys.

Now saying 2 cars involved.

Have heard a few gems from the reporters. I have come to expect them to know little or nothing. What I find sad is that the aviation experts they call upon are no better.

Yes Carbheat, early reports (unconfirmed) is that the 73 hit one car and then the other car ran into the airplane (looks like the right engine). The airplane is sitting in a traffic intersection just off the runway.

The four people in the car (that may have been hit by the 73) are in local hospitals and they are in serious to critical condition.

Let us all hope and pray the folks in the car all pull through with little or no serious problems.