Posted on 06/21/2024 2:16:40 AM PDT by libh8er
A Boeing 737 aircraft suddenly plummeted to less than 500 feet of the ground over Oklahoma, terrifying residents who feared the jet was going to crash.
Southwest Airlines Flight 4069 was still nine miles away from Will Rogers World Airport just after midnight on Wednesday, when records show it dived to between 400 and 500 feet as it flew over a high school in the City of Yukon.
Doorbell camera footage showed the Boeing 737 MAX-8 then hovering above houses, before it flies out of frame.
A resident was startled awake by the plane's engine and wondered if the aircraft was set for a collision.
'It woke me up and I thought it was gonna hit my house,' the resident wrote on the Yukon Happenings Facebook page, according to The Oklahoman.
The sudden descent prompted air traffic control to call the pilot and check on the status of the flight.
'Southwest 4069, low altitude alert,' the air traffic controller could be heard saying in an audio archive of the transmission.
'You good out there?' he asked.
The pilot of the commercial flight from Las Vegas confirmed there was no issue with the aircraft, and circled back around - quickly regaining altitude from just about 450 feet to more than 1,000 feet as it crossed over Yukon High School.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Boing Boing does it again.
If it’s Boeing 737 MAX
I’M NOT GOING
I do not trust any fly by wire system any longer.
Too many hackers.
[Doorbell camera footage showed the Boeing 737 MAX-8 then hovering above houses]
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say the Boeing 737 Max-8 was not “hovering” (from the article)
Unless it’s now got them alien space engine thingy-things
My guess is a D.I.E. pilot.
Oakland. Oklahoma. Both start with O and have a K.
Close enough for England.
Wait, what?
“ pilot of the commercial flight from Las Vegas confirmed there was no issue with the aircraft, ”
Then why is Boeing in the headline?
“Boing Boing does it again”
What did they do?
Why is Boeing in the headline in the UK’s DM...
Very good question.
Why do I think beatings will continue until morale improves...
Somebody getting cold feet, Deep State?
Fail to be safe.
Keep your powder dry.
They might not have done anything.
Or they did, but it wasn’t related to aviation safety.
Hopefully we won’t find out the hard way.
If I’m the FAA being out of place and low is issue enough for me.
“Then why is Boring in the headline?”
It is a cover for DEI?
“Fail to be safe”
That’s vague.
Did Boeing “fail to be safe” earlier this week when the pilot flew through a microburst and lost altitude?
This pilot confirmed there was no issue with the airplane. How did BOEING “fail to be safe”?
https://kfor.com/news/faa-investigating-after-southwest-jet-buzzes-within-hundreds-of-feet-of-yukon-neighborhood/
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In the air traffic control audio obtained by News 4, it was indicated that the plane’s pilots intended to land on runway 13, a crosswind runway going diagonally across the airfield at Will Rogers World Airport.
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Flight records indicate the plane then circled around, and reapproached the airport from the north, eventually landing on runway 17R, a different runway which runs due north/south.
So it was a last minute runway change. Must be Boeing’s fault that the wind changed direction.
When the avionics of a plane are controlled via computers and the plane has wifi and is connected to the Internet, you have a really bad situation.
Huh? Oh, he means "pilot error".
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