American Airlines Flight 1420

American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 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. Eleven of the 145 people aboard were killed—the captain and ten passengers.

The aircraft involved in the incident was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 , a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft. It was delivered new to American Airlines in 1983, and had been operated continuously by the airline since, accumulating a total of 49,136 flight hours. The aircraft was powered by Pratt & Whitney JT8D-217C turbofan jet engines.

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