But the hardware required would include something like this.
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 ...
THIS is a southwest issue not a boeing issue..
southwest has a very bad rep because of issues like this one.
“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”
Yes, that poor guy who’s going to retire early and fish the rest of his life.
Uhhh... 737’s don’t ‘hover’ so it wasn’t “hovering”
For once you didn’t claim the problem was airline maintenance.
-PJ
-PJ
Nor was it a problem with the airplane. It takes a crew to fly one. This crew apparently screwed the pooch.
Yes, because sometimes the heat in Phoenix exceeds the temperature range of the plane's avionics.
Doorbell camera footage showed the Boeing 737 MAX-8 then hovering above houses, before it flies out of frame.
I can confidently say that did not happen.
Reporters suck at reporting.
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?
There isn't.
Yea, I was gonna to say that.
LOL. So, the aircrew decided to take a side-trip, a late night low level while on approach.
Get a grip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3PNASDbh4
An airline pilot discusses the incident. Likely a pilot error or an equipment malfunction..
The flight crew did a visual (& hand flown) approach late at night and got low...probably should have done an IFR approach...this is the 4th “too low on approach” incident for SWA in the recent past...see the video at post #73 for details.
Get a grip.
Had a grip all along.
Now Blancolerio has reported on his channel. He is the apex of aircraft incident analysis on the web:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3PNASDbh4
Oopsy, my bad.
I guess all the competent pilots quit rather than take the jab or took the jab and now have health issues that prevent them from being a pilot.
Here's a video by a guy with some actual knowledge using available data: Low Altitude Alert! WN4069 KOKC 19 June 2024
Thank you for that video.......very enlightening.
Countless other flaws in the reporting leads one to believe this is National Enquirer level reporting.
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