It has been fifteen years since American Airlines Flight 1420 suffered a botched landing, tragically killing 10 passengers, the captain, and injuring 110 others. Thankfully, 24 passengers were unharmed and the first officer survived. This terrible accident could have turned out to be much worse, but it could also have been easily avoided. On June 1, 1999, Captain Richard Buschmann and First Officer Michael Origel were about to embark on the third and final leg of the day after having already worked ten hours on two other legs of the voyage. They had arrived in Dallas/Fort Worth Texas around 2010 CST and were eager to proceed on their final trip of the day to Little Rock, Arkansas. Bad weather in the region prevented assigned planes from arriving on time, pushing them ever closer to their fourteen-hour service limits for the day. The first officer who became aware of the situation contacted the dispatchers to inform them that they would have to find a replacement aircraft otherwise the flight would have to be cancelled. Both pilots were well aware of impending storms in the area, including around the destination airport, but decided that they would be able to beat the storms there, one of the first signs of suffering arrival syndrome. Once the aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82, was replaced, the pilots were able to depart at 10.40pm, 2 hours and 12 minutes after the scheduled departure time, 12 hours after the start of their duty day of 14 hours. On this leg of their long Everyday, the captain was the flying pilot in control of the plane, and the first officer was the non-flying pilot, handling things like navigation and radios. After just 14 minutes in the air, 2254, received the first of many warnings. They have received an ACARS message, the eq... in the center of the paper... they push forward regardless of the danger signs placed in front of them. Aside from some technological innovation that can monitor the decisions and behaviors of all pilots in real time, the only real way to reduce the chances of another accident like this would be better human factors training and more regulations covering the pilot fatigue and weather conditions. . Technological advances will one day allow computers aboard an airplane to make safety determinations like crosswind capability and visibility in real time and prevent pilots from making foolish decisions, but until that day comes, education and training will be our only means of protecting ourselves from incidents like these. Training will never be perfect, humans will always be far from perfect, and we will always continue to have human-related incidents, we can only hope to reduce them.