USAir Flight 1493 was a scheduled United States (US) domestic passenger flight from Syracuse Hancock International Airport, New York, to San Francisco International Airport, California, via Washington, D.C., Columbus, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California. On the evening of Friday, February 1, 1991, the aircraft serving the flight accidentally collided with SkyWest Flight 5569 upon landing at Los Angeles. That evening saw slow to moderate air traffic at Los Angeles airport (LAX), but as the USAir 737 was on final approach, a series of abnormalities distracted the local controller, including an aircraft that inadvertently switched off the tower frequency and a misplaced flight progress strip which resulted in the SkyWest Metroliner being told to taxi into takeoff position while the USAir flight was landing on the same runway without the Metroliner ever being given a takeoff clearance. Upon landing, the 737 collided with the twin-engine turboprop, continued down the runway with the turboprop crushed beneath it, exited the runway, and caught fire. All 12 people aboard the Metroliner were killed, and an eventual total of 23 out of 89 on the Boeing. Rescue workers were on the scene of the fire within minutes and began the evacuation of the plane. Because of the intense fire, three of the 737's six exits could not be used. Neither of the front exits were usable, which caused the front passengers to try to use the overwing exits. However, only one of the overwing exits was usable, which caused a backlog to form. Most of those aboard the 737 who died in the accident did so from asphyxiation in the post-crash fire. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found the probable cause of the accident to be procedures in use at the LAX control tower which provided inadequate redundancy, leading to a loss of situational awareness by the local controller. The crash led directly to the NTSB's recommendation of using different runways for takeoffs and landings at LAX. As always, thanks for watching! If you enjoyed: click that like button and subscribe to my channel, it really helps me out. Feel free to make a donation to my channel. It will help me make better content for you. Every dollar counts :) - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted;_button_id=ZEMZA8MR6SY4C Check out my website! - https://www.aviationnorway.com __ FOLLOW ME __ Livestreams - https://twitch.tv/sea_bee Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AviationNorway Twitter - https://twitter.com/AviationNorway Flickr - http://bit.ly/1eqfy5E Mail - avnorway@live.com

• published: 11 Aug 2014
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