# NTSB Accident DCA00MA030
> **Boeing 737-300** · 2000-03-06 · BURBANK, CA, USA · SERS
## Event
- **NTSB number:** DCA00MA030
- **Event ID:** 20001212X20606
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2000-03-06
- **Location:** BURBANK, CA, USA
- **Coordinates:** 34.170448, -118.340774
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** SERS
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 2
- **Minor:** 42
- **Uninjured:** 98
- **Total aboard:** 142
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Boeing
- **Model:** 737-300
- **Registration:** N668SW
- **FAR Part:** 121
- **Engines:** 2
- **Damage:** DEST
## Conditions
- **Light:** DUSK
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

the flight crew's excessive airspeed and flightpath angle during the approach and landing and its failure to abort the approach when stabilized approach criteria were not met. Contributing to the accident was the controller's positioning of the airplane in such a manner as to leave no safe options for the flight crew other than a go-around maneuver.

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