![]() ![]() ![]() : 83 Accident details Flight Diagram showing movement of the aircraft involved in the accident The clearance delivery controller in charge of taxiing aircraft was Francita Vandiver, who had previously served as an ATC in the US Navy. She had been working in the role since 1982, and began working at LAX in 1989. The air traffic controller (ATC) in charge of takeoffs and landings in the LAX tower (the local controller) was Robin Lee Wascher. : 13 Aircraft that landed on the outer runway – 24R – would cross the inner runway – 24L – in order to reach the terminal. LAX has four parallel runways, with the two runways and associated taxiways north of the terminal called the North Complex. : 20–21 Both of Flight 5569's pilots had significant experience Captain Andrew Lucas (32), had roughly 8,800 flight hours (with 2,101 of them on the Metroliner), and First Officer Frank Prentice (45), had over 8,000 flight hours, including 1,363 hours on the Metroliner. : 1 The aircraft did not carry a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) or a flight data recorder (FDR), as it was not required to do so at the time. ![]() The flight was scheduled to depart LAX on the final leg of a multicity schedule, and was bound for Palmdale, California, with 10 passengers and two pilots aboard. On February 1, 1991, SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569 was operated using a twin-engined Fairchild Metroliner (registration N683AV ). : 82 Flying into LAX, the aircraft had 89 people on board (83 passengers, four flight attendants, and the two pilots). Kelly (32), who had about 4,300 total flight hours, with 982 hours on the Boeing 737. : 1 On February 1, 1991, Flight 1493 was operated using a Boeing 737-300 ( registration N388US ) after a crew change in Washington, DC, : 1 it was under the command of Captain Colin Franklin Shaw (48), a highly experienced pilot with around 16,300 total flight hours (including more than 4,300 hours on the Boeing 737), and First Officer David T. USAir Flight 1493 was a scheduled service from Syracuse, New York, making stops at Washington, DC, Columbus, Ohio, and LAX, before continuing to San Francisco. : vi, 76 The crash led directly to the NTSB's recommendation of using different runways for takeoffs and landings at LAX.īackground Aircraft and crew The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the probable cause of the accident was the procedures in use at the LAX control tower, which provided inadequate redundancy, leading to a loss of situational awareness by the local controller, and inadequate oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for failing to supervise the control tower managers. Most of those who died aboard the 737 succumbed to asphyxiation in the post-crash fire. However, only one of the overwing exits was usable, which caused a backlog to form. Neither of the front exits was usable, which caused the front passengers to use the overwing exits. ![]() Because of the intense fire, three of the 737's six exits could not be used. Rescue workers were on the scene of the fire within minutes and began the evacuation of the plane. All 12 people aboard the smaller plane were killed, as well as an eventual total of 23 of the 89 occupants of the Boeing 737. Upon landing, the 737 collided with the twin-engined turboprop plane, and kept continuing down the runway with the turboprop crushed beneath it, exited the runway, and caught fire. The SkyWest flight was told to taxi into takeoff position, while the USAir flight was landing on the same runway. Though air traffic was not heavy at LAX, as Flight 1493 was on final approach, the local controller was distracted by a series of abnormalities, including a misplaced flight progress strip and an aircraft that had inadvertently switched off the tower frequency. On the evening of February 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493, a Boeing 737-300, collided with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner turboprop aircraft, upon landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). N683AV, the SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner involved in the accident N388US, the Boeing 737 involved in the accident, with previous registration ![]()
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