Crash of American Airlines Flight 1340
An American Airlines' Boeing 727 operating as flight 1340 from Kansas City to Chicago met with an accident on February 9, 1998 (0954 central standard time), while landing at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD). Although there were no fatalities, 22 passengers and 1 flight attendant (out of the 116 passengers, 3 flight crewmembers, and 3 flight attendants on board) received minor injuries, and the airplane was substantially damaged. This is a research paper which traces the sequence of events leading to the accident, describes the crash and its aftermath, and analyzes its possible causes.
Sequence of Events Leading to the Crash
0843 hrs:
Flight 1340 departs from Kansas City International Airport on February 9, 1998 after a one-hour delay in the scheduled flight time because of poor weather conditions at the O'Hare International Airport, Chicago. ("Aircraft Accident Brief," 1998, p.1)
0936:51 hrs:
After an uneventful flight, the flight crew makes initial contact with the west arrival controller at the Chicago Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility.
0948:32 hrs:
The west arrival controller at TRACON clears the airplane for an Instrument Landing System (ILS)
CAT II
approach landing to runway 14R at ORD and to maintain airspeed of 170 knots until reaching the outer marker, located at 5.2 miles from the runway threshold. Flight 1340 is about 18 miles from the airport. (Ibid., p.2)
0948:39 hrs:
The flight crew acknowledges the approach clearance. (Ibid.)
0949:08 hrs:
The west arrival controller advises flight 1340 to contact the ORD tower and to report its position at the outer marker.
0952:15 hrs:
The flight crew contacts the ORD south local tower controller and reports its position at the outer marker. The controller clears flight 1340 to land 2 seconds later and advises the flight crew that the winds at runway 14R were calm.
0952:29 hrs:
The flight crew acknowledges the...
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