Las Vegas (AP) – Passenger on a south -west airlines jet Dramatic dip to escape An upcoming aircraft was told by the pilot that he hit almost another aircraft before landing safely in Las Vegas.
According to the flight tracking website, Boeing 737 Jet dropped hundreds of feet in 30 seconds during a flight on Friday.
Kettlelin Burdy, who was in flight, stated that it takes a small dip and then the passengers shouted in terror as a more rigorous decline.
“We really thought we were falling into an aircraft accident,” Burdy told Fox News Digital in an interview at Las Vegas Airport. He said the pilot told the passengers that they had collided with almost another aircraft.
The Federal Aviation Administration stated that the flight, South -West 1496, was responding to a warning on a ship about another aircraft in its surroundings. FAA is investigating. Southwest said that the crew responded to two alerts, in which the pilot needed to climb, then descend. The Udaan left Hollywood Barbank Airport just before noon.
Another passenger, comedian Steff Zamorano said that she saw a woman who did not wear her seat belt out and out of her seat, and a man next to her was holding her arm. A woman was nervous in the corridor, she said.
Zamrano told the Associated Press on Friday, “She was very orally felt how we all felt, saying, ‘I want to get off this plane. I want to live on the ground.” Another woman was nervous and saying that she “wanted to get off the aircraft.”
The aircraft was in the same airspace near Barabank as a hawker Hunter MK. 58, flight tracking site, according to flightware. Records show that it is owned by the British Defense Contracting company Hawker Hunter Aviation.
The company did not respond to the messages on Friday and Saturday.
Southwest said the flight continued for Las Vegas, “where it landed unequally.” The airline stated that it is working with FAA “to understand the circumstances of the incident”.
This close call is just the latest incident to raise questions Aviation safety In view of January Midar collision Washington, on DC, in which 67 people were killed.
The Associated Press
