Southwest passengers fly out of seats as jet drops 300 feet in 36 seconds
A lines southwest Airlines airline aircraft flying to Las Vegas from southern California took a dramatic landing shortly after taking off on Friday in response to an alert about a nearby plane, which led to some passengers out of their seats and wounding two flight attendants.
Steve Zamurano, who was flying to Las Vegas with her husband to celebrate his birthday, said the plane suddenly shaking shortly after the acquisition after that, and then felt that she was falling.
In front of her, Zamuro saw a woman who was not wearing a seat belt shooting from her seat, and her long hair flies in interlocking chaos. The man who was sitting next to her was holding her arm, and said that the woman through the corridor was panic.
“I was very highly protruding what we all felt, saying:” I want to get out of this plane. I want to be on the ground. ”
Data from Flightaware flight tracking site shows that it has decreased about 300 feet (91.44 meters) in 36 seconds.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the flight, southwest of 1496, was responding to an alert on the plane around another plane in its vicinity. FAA check. South West said that the crew had responded to alerts asking the pilot to climb and then go down. She left the flight from Hollywood Borbank Airport just before noon.
She is still shocking, Zamuro said that she can barely make what the pilot says when he addressed the passengers later.
Another passenger, comedian Jimmy Dor, posted on X that the pilot mentioned a nearby Miss.
“The pilot said that his collision warning had started and needed to avoid the arrival of a plane on us,” as he published a role.
The plane was in the same airspace near Borbank as Hawker Hunter MK. 58 in the afternoon local time directly, Flightaware appears. The street vendors hunter is a British fighter plane. The records show that they are owned by Hawker Hunter Aviation, a British defense contracting company. The company did not immediately respond to the messages seeking to comment.
Mike Kristinsen, airport spokesman in Hollywood Bourbank, said there is neither a observation tower nor the operations department, which tracks the aircraft that leave and arrive, that is, record in the southwestern aviation that falls in the airspace.
The southwest said that the journey continued in Las Vegas, “as it fell quietly.” The airline said it is working with FAA “to increase the understanding of” the event “.
This close invitation is just a newer incident to ask flying safety in the aftermath of the air collision in January to Washington, DC, which killed 67 people.
2025-07-26 14:31:00
