1999 жылғы АҚШ, Арканзас штатындағы ұшақ апаты

June 1999 runway overrun and crash in Arkansas, US

American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to Little Rock National Airport in the United States. On June 1, 1999, the McDonnell Douglas MD 82 operating as Flight 1420 overran the runway upon landing in Little Rock and crashed. Nine of the 145 people aboard were immediately killed—the captain and eight passengers.

The aircraft involved in the incident was a McDonnell Douglas MD 82 (registration ), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC 9, and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD 80 series of aircraft. The flight's first officer was Michael Origel, age 35. First Officer Origel, three of the four flight attendants, and 41 passengers sustained serious injuries, the remaining flight attendant and 64 passengers sustained minor injuries, and 24 passengers sustained no injuries.

The NTSB report cited fatigue as a contributing factor. The captain had been awake for 16 hours that day;

The compensatory damages claims proceeded first. American Airlines "admitted liability for the crash, and individual trials were scheduled to assess the proper amount of compensatory damages. Thereafter, American Airlines reached settlement agreements with a majority of the domestic Plaintiffs." As part of the settlement agreement, "Plaintiffs relinquished not only their compensatory damages claims, but their punitive damages claims, as well." In the only liability trial arising out of the crash of Flight 1420, a federal jury in Little Rock awarded Captain Buschmann's family $2 million in wrongful death damages following a lawsuit they had filed against Little Rock National Airport. The jury rejected the airport's argument that Buschmann was at fault in causing his own death. The jury verdict has been claimed to completely absolve Buschmann of all fault for the crash, surmised, "after all these years, [whether Captain Buschmann was "absolved" of all responsibility for the crash] is still a matter reasonable people who are fully informed may disagree on." However, Rapoport concluded that there should be a consensus understanding among all parties involved that "flight operations should not be conducted in the terminal area when thunderstorms are on the flight path, and nonfrangible objects should not be placed where it is foreseeable an aircraft may go." American Airlines still flies to Little Rock from Dallas, but the aircraft used is mostly an Embraer E170. Every year between 2000 and 2022, the father of crash victim Debra Taylor Sattari elaborately decorated the exterior of his home in Vallejo, California with Christmas lights and decorations in her honor, which has gained attention from local and national media.

The events of Flight 1420 were featured in "Racing the Storm," a season one (2003) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday which looked at the role of bad weather in aviation disasters. The Weather Channel detailed the story of the flight on an episode of Storm Stories, as did the Biography Channel on the show Flightmares.