Boeing 737-700 crash, Jul 22, 2013, New York-LaGuardia
Boeing 737-700 accident on July 22, 2013 near New York-LaGuardia, New York, United States with no fatalities. Cause: The captain's attempt to salvage...
- Date: July 22, 2013
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-700
- Location: New York-LaGuardia, New York, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The captain's attempt to salvage an unstabilized approach by taking control at very low altitude instead of executing a go-around, together with her failure to follow standard operating procedures and poor crew resource management.
Southwest flight 345 from Nashville landed hard at LaGuardia after an unstabilized approach. The flaps were not in the landing configuration until about 500 ft, and the captain took over the controls at about 27 ft, too low to correct the descent. The nose gear struck the runway first and the aircraft stopped right of the centerline about 2,500 ft past touchdown.