Douglas DC-9 crash, Mar 17, 1980, Baton Rouge-Metropolita...
Douglas DC-9 accident on March 17, 1980 near Baton Rouge-Metropolitan (Harding Field), Louisiana, United States with no fatalities. Cause: Overshoot on...
- Date: March 17, 1980
- Aircraft: Douglas DC-9
- Location: Baton Rouge-Metropolitan (Harding Field), Louisiana, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Overshoot on landing and overrun into a ditch because ATC cleared the aircraft to the wrong runway for existing conditions, with improper decisions and brake or flight control operation by the pilot, rain, wet runway, downwind and spoilers not used after touchdown as contributing factors.
On 17 March 1980 a Texas International Airlines DC-9-14, registration N9103, on a scheduled flight from Houston landed in rain with a tailwind about 2,000 feet down runway 13. It could not stop in the remaining distance, overran and came to rest in a ditch. All 50 occupants escaped without injuries and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.