Southwest Airlines accidents and incidents include three deaths : one accidental passenger death inflight , one non-passenger death on the ground and one passenger death from injuries he sustained when subdued by other passengers while attempting to break into the cockpit of an aircraft . In March 2019 a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed in Ethiopia , following the crash of another Max 8 in Indonesia ( Lion Air Flight 610 ) which caused the worldwide grounding of the aircraft type . Southwest made the decision to move some of its 737 Max aircraft for storage to the Southern California Logistics Airport
Lion Air Flight 610
Lion Air Flight 610
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