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.
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The pilot of the commercial flight from Las Vegas confirmed there was no issue with the aircraft, well, maybe except for the airmen flying it.
That is becoming a very common "coincidence". The UK is part of the Airbus consortium.
Pilots were sleeping?
You bad...lol
A crash there might've done 100 million dollars worth of improvements.
My son checked the make of the plane before we left for the airport recently to fly cross country - it was an air bus, so all good and we had a great flight.
Said if it was a Boeing, he wasn’t going.
A visual approach at night? I’m starting to sniff out the cause and it isn’t Boeing.
FTA - ‘Southwest is following its robust Safety Management System and is in contact with the Federal Aviation Administration to understand and address any irregularities with the aircraft’s approach to the airport,’ they said in a statement.
I’m assuming the Safety Management System is their pilot self reporting of incidents process. I would love to read that pilot’s report. I’m sure the FAA already has.
Isn’t this the second SOUTHWEST AIRLINES pilot induced terror in a week?
EC
” I do not trust any fly by wire system any longer.”
Then never fly on any Airbus those planes are only fly by wire they have no mechanical back up control systems nor any direct connections from the primary flight controls to the flight surfaces. In those aircraft the pilots ask nicely the computers which are really in control to.move the flight dynamic surfaces.
Every Boeing except for the 777 and 787 have direct positive controls from the primary flight controls to the dynamic surfaces with the ability for competent pilots to disconnect or disable any computer control or flight assistance software. This means even in a total loss of power or computers a Boeing is still being flown by positive pilot inputs. In an Airbus you are dead with a power failure as there is no mechanical links from the flight controls to the dynamic surfaces.
Even the 777/787 both have back up mechanical linked control systems for the fly by wire which itself is quadruple redundant, has it’s own double dedicated power suoply one dedicated turbo alternator in each engine, a third dedicated battery back up, access to the aircrafts separate battery back up and the ram air turbine as a fifth level. Even if all that fails the 777/787 both have hardware cables from the flight deck to the left and right main spoilers over the wings and to the left and right horizontal stabilizers. With those four dynamic surfaces a plane is flight worthy and under manual and total pilot control.
Yes I am a pilot (PPL,IMC,multi twin& turbine ratings) and my sister and bother in law are both aeronautical engineers and engineer&test pilot certified pilot instructor for Boeing. One the 777 and the 787 respectively. You are risking your life every time you get on an Airbus way more than a Boeing. I would rather fly on an airframe that has competent first world pilots who can take manual control and be real pilots vs an airframe that has no mechanical links to its primary flight controls. But to each their own.
I worked at Boeing for 32 years, most of that in the in-flight entertainment system. Unless things have changed - and I doubt it - there is no connection, wireless or otherwise, between the IFE and the airplane controls. Why would there be?
Methinks this “hacker” is a wacko. If he did what he thinks he did, he should get life in prison.
“My understanding is that this plane is NOT fly-by-wire. Well, that is until ‘the wire’ “
The 737Max aircraft have digital pilot assist systems which are fly by wire in design. The dynamic surfaces are moved by hydraulic actuators controlled via electromechanical servos that modulate hydraulic pressures. They also have cables directly to the yokes and pedals on the flight deck. The pilot or first officer can at any time disable the electronic assistance and or electromechanical servos and use the cables to directly move the dynamic flight surfaces. To do this you must have the muscle strength to manually move the surfaces if you turned off the hydraulics. A DEI hire who is female , 5 foot a buck O five is not going to have the arm strength to move the elevators maybe the rudder via pedals. You need a strong man probably two to manually fly a modern jet via the cables and no hydraulics. Luckily the cables also actuate the servos so a pilot in a 737 or any other Boeing doesn’t have to turn off the hydraulics to eliminate the computer controls just the electronics then they can fly the aircraft with direct pilot inputs to the hydraulic actuators. Airbus has no means of doing that as it’s 100% fly by wire. This is why Boeing’s are known as a pilots aircraft for real pilots not computer jockies with a flight cert.
“My son checked the make of the plane before we left for the airport recently to fly cross country - it was an air bus, so all good and we had a great flight.
Said if it was a Boeing, he wasn’t going.”
Your son reads too many headlines. There were two Crashes that were Boeing’s fault 6+ years ago, both involved foreign airlines assigning pilots who weren’t trained on the MAX. There are 45,000 flights a day in the US alone. The majority of those planes are Boeing and the “incidents” per month can be counted on 1 hand. Your son is more likely to die on the way to the airport to board an Airbus.
Those astronauts are still stuck in space
Oakland?
The only word I read in the article is Boeing.
The American pilots had superior training, many came from the military.
However, things are changing so with the new pilots, I can't say their training is that much better than the foreign pilots.
Yeah, there’s no worry unless you’re the one sitting next to the hatch when it blows out because the slackers at the factory didn’t install the bolts and the inspectors, well - clearly there was no inspection.
SINCE WHEN IS OAKLAND IN OKLAHOMA????
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