Southwest Airlines (Dallas) has issued the following statement concerning yesterday’s incident at Chicago’s Midway Airport:

“Southwest Airlines’ flight WN 1919 exited the runway at Chicago’s Midway Airport while landing at approximately 1:33 p.m. CT on April 26. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-7Q8 registered N799SW (msn 28209), arrived from Denver International Airport, where it had departed at 9:56 a.m. MT.

The preliminary passenger list, still subject to verification, indicates that the aircraft carried 134 passengers, five lap children, and five crew members. Initial reports are that no one was injured. The passengers have been safely deplaned from the aircraft using air stairs and have been bused to the terminal.

Southwest officials are working with passengers to get them to their final destinations. The airline is making outreach to each Customer onboard the flight to refund their roundtrip and issue them two complimentary roundtrip passes as a gesture of goodwill.

Southwest officials are in direct contact with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as they perform an investigation into the cause of this incident.”

The aircraft left the end of the runway and got mired in the mud. There was no apparent damage to the aircraft.

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