What the records say
- When
- 8 Dec 2005
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 41.79° N, 87.76° W
- Description
- December 8, 2005 runway overrun at Chicago Midway Airport
- Deaths
- 1
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248
2005 aviation accident in Illinois
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 Boeing 737-7H4 operating the flight slid off the runway at Midway International Airport in Chicago while landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic, killing a six-year-old boy.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “При посадке в чикагском аэропорту Мидуэй самолёт Boeing 737-7H4 компании Southwest Airlines выкатился с полосы на шоссе”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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