Episode 79: Crash Landing of American Airlines Flight 1420 (Part 1)

In this episode of Unexplained Arkansas, your host Lisa discusses the horrible and tragic crash landing of American Airlines Flight 1420--this is Part 1 of a 2 part episode.

On the evening of June 1, 1999, American Airlines pilots Rick Buschmann and Mike Origel are trying to make their last final leg of their day by flying from Dallas/Fort Worth to Little Rock National Airport. Storms that had been building all day in this portion of the country had delayed the pilots on previous flights and time was running out.

The pilots were in a rush to get ahead of a storm and to not delay to the point where they would exceed their maximum flight hours per that day and per the regulations in 1999.

The fatigue and the rush to get home would turn fatal when the plane would land in Little Rock but it would crash 800 ft beyond the runway killing 11 people from the flight and injuring soo many more.

Listen to the whole episode to find out all the details of Flight 1420.

References for this Episode:

https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accidents/N215AA

https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.gov/files/2022-11/American1420_findings.pdf

https://www.slackdavis.com/notable-cases/manus-v-american-airlines-american-airlines-flight-1420/

https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0102.pdf

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/previousfeatures/1420crash/

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/american-airlines-flight-1420-11931/

https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-flight-1420-crash/

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-crash-of-american-airlines-flight-1420-analysis-33735cd368a7

https://youtu.be/XN_lpoI_PD0?si=cUb9WUpfJ3PFDgSo

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.newspapers.com--several articles

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