 N471WN, following its runway overrun at Chicago Midway Airport | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | December 8, 2005 |
| Summary | Runway overrun in snowstorm due to pilot error |
| Site | Intersections of W 55th Street and S Central Avenue, Near Chicago Midway Airport, Chicago, Illinois, United States 41°47′32.7″N 87°45′44.4″W / 41.792417°N 87.762333°W |
| Total fatalities | 1 |
| Total injuries | 16 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-7H4 |
| Operator | Southwest Airlines |
| IATA flight No. | WN1248 |
| ICAO flight No. | SWA1248 |
| Call sign | SOUTHWEST 1248 |
| Registration | N471WN |
| Flight origin | Baltimore/Washington Int'l Thurgood Marshall Airport Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| 1st stopover | Chicago Midway International Airport Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Last stopover | Salt Lake City International Airport Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Destination | McCarran International Airport Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
| Occupants | 103 |
| Passengers | 98 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Injuries | 7 |
| Survivors | 103 |
| Ground casualties | |
| Ground fatalities | 1 |
| Ground injuries | 9 |
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore, Maryland, to Chicago, Illinois, continuing on to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then to Las Vegas, Nevada. On December 8, 2005, the airplane slid off a runway at Midway Airport in Chicago while landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic, killing a six-year-old boy.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ "Runway Overrun and Collision, Southwest Airlines Flight 1248, Boeing 737-7H4, N471WN, Chicago Midway International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, December 8, 2005" (PDF). National Transportation Safety Board. October 2, 2007. NTSB/AAR-07/06. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 19, 2015. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
- ^ "Southwest, Family of Midway Victim Reach Settlement". AviationPros.Com. April 3, 2007. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
- ^ Sadovi, Carlos; Casillas, Ofelia; Presecky, William; Heinzmann, David; Doyle, Gerry (December 10, 2005). "A father's horror: He saw jet coming". The Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2015.
- ^ Koch, Kathleen (October 2, 2007). "NTSB: Pilot erred in runway crash that killed boy". CNN. Retrieved February 15, 2015.