MPH Over the Highway: How Flight 331 Skidded Past Disaster

Aviation Survival Stories · Aug 30, 2026 · 16m · transcript

MPH Over the Highway: How Flight 331 Skidded Past Disaster

A fully loaded Boeing 737 crossed a public highway at 72 miles per hour and stopped meters from Kingston Harbor with 154 people on board - and no fatalities. How did a touchdown 4,100 feet down an 8,910-foot runway, a 16 mph tailwind, and a known regulatory gap almost become a catastrophe?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events aboard American Airlines Flight 331 and the institutional context that allowed them to converge, from crew experience to airport conditions and prior safety recommendations. What did investigators…