The first officer likewise indicated after the accident that he was aware that they were not "in the slot," but said he believed the captain was taking corrective action. The aircraft touched down on the wet runway at over the target airspeed. Furthermore, it touched down from the runway threshold, beyond the range established by the Southwest Airlines FOM. The captain deployed the thrust reversers and then he and the first officer applied manual brakes, but according to later NTSB findings, under those conditions even maximum braking would not have prevented the aircraft from overrunning the end of the runway. Unable to stop in time, the Boeing 737 overran the end of Runway 8. "The airplane touched down at approximately , and about 20 seconds later, at approximately , collided with a metal blast fence and an airport perimeter wall." It finally came to rest on Hollywood Way, a four-lane city street, near a Chevron gas station. The nose section and front landing gear were sheared off, but otherwise the fuselage remained intact and there was no compromise of the cabin area. However, the 737 sustained structural damage from the accident and was later scrapped. The cockpit voice recorder captured the flight's captain remarking, "Well, there goes my career," moments after the accident. Investigation The NTSB concluded that the probable cause for the accident was excessive flight speed and the steep angle of the glidepath (7 degrees, as opposed to the 3 degrees normally used for both visual and instrument approaches), and the flight crew's failure to abort the approach when conditions were not met for a stable approach and landing. The action of the flight controller was listed as a contributing factor in the accident: "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." Months later, the pilots were fired as a result of this incident. Southwest Airlines admitted the pilots' actions were negligent. At the time, a Southwest spokesperson termed it "the worst accident" in the airline's history. Air safety experts and pilots suggested the accident was an example of a situation where "fast, steep, unstabilized approaches" are dangerous, and of how inadequate the safety margins around the Burbank runways are (as well as similar U.S. airports). The gas station missed by the aircraft was later closed