How ONE forgotten checklist item doomed this jet | American 1420

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In the minutes before midnight on June night in 1999, an American Airlines flight crew made a series of critical errors which would end in the deaths of 11 people on board their aircraft. The investigation into the accident revealed one shockingly basic mistake which the pilots committed, made all the more surprising in light of their stellar flying records. Investigators also uncovered a number of disturbing practices in the airline industry, which had vast implications for how pilots are trained, and for the culture of punctuality within airlines.

This episode investigates the crash of American Airlines flight 1420, from Dallas Fort Worth to Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 1st, 1999.

The Final Report and other publicly-available sources were used to piece together the events leading up to this incident.

All music licensed through Epidemic Sound

NTSB Final Report:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/A...

3D Crash animation by Michael:
   • AA1420 Animation based on NTSB (2020)  

AA livery for MD-80
https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?...

MIT study:
https://archive.ll.mit.edu/mission/av...

Picture of accident aircraft by LRS747:
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/300364

00:00 Intro
00:47 Captain Buschmann
01:40 First Officer Origel
02:22 Delayed departure
03:36 Cruise and initial descent
05:21 Stormy approach
10:10 Landing
11:29 Immediate aftermath
12:35 Causes and investigation