SW has a safety record that can only be admired by other airlines. To my knowledge they have never had a crash and one plane slid off the runway in Chicago during an ice storm recently.
When you consider before they ever put a new 737 into service, they have the cockpit configured like every other plane they own so that when a pilot steps into the cockpit nothing is different than with any other plane. My son flies SW all the time.
OB
I was once the Chief Pilot for a fairly large cargo airline, before being sucked up by big brown.
When the FAA inspectors came to inspect pilot records I always greeted them thus ...
I; “ Well I guess this is where we start lying to each other””
FAA: “What?”
I: “ You know.. you say “ I’m here to help you “ and I say “I’m glad to meet you”
Always put ‘em back on their heals...
Mar 5, 2000, Southwest Flight 1455 went off the end of the runway while landing at Burbank, CA., went across a highway and into a gas station. There were 142 people on board, no fatalities, 2 serious injuries.