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| Title: | Runway Departure Following Landing, American Airlines Flight 102, McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, N139AA, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, April 14, 1993 |
| Micro summary: | This McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 overran the runway on landing. |
| Event Time: | 1993-04-14 at 0659:43 CDT |
| File Name: | 1993-04-14-US.pdf |
| Publishing Agency: | National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) |
| Publishing Country: | USA |
| Report number: | NTSB-AAR-94-01 |
| Pages: | 176 |
| Site of event: | RWY 17L |
| Latitude/Longitude: | N32°53.18' W97°01.62' |
| Departure: | Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
| Destination: | Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Airplane Type(s): | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 |
| Flight Phase: | Landing |
| Registration(s): | N139AA |
| Operator(s): | American Airlines |
| Type of flight: | Revenue |
| Occupants: | 202 |
| Fatalities: | 0 |
| Serious Injuries: | 40 |
| Minor/Non-Injured: | 162 |
| Other Injuries: | 0 |
| Executive Summary: | On April 14, 1993, about 0659:43 central daylight time, American Airlines flight 102, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, departed runway 17 left, following landing at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, after a nonstop, overnight flight from Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. It was raining at the time of the landing, and there were numerous thunderstorms in the area. There were 189 passengers, 3 flightcrew members and 10 cabincrew members aboard the airplane. Two passengers received serious injuries, and 35 passengers, 1 flightcrew member, and 2 cabincrew members received minor injuries during the evacuation of the airplane. The airplane sustained substantial damage. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the captain to use proper directional control techniques to maintain the airplane on the runway. The safety issues in this report focused on weather conditions affecting the flight, flightcrew and air traffic control training and procedures, airplane emergency evacuation lighting, and runway maintenance. Safety recommendations concerning these issues were addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and American Airlines, Inc. |
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