Southwest flight flew simply 150 ft above the bottom, monitoring information displays | The Gentleman Report

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A Southwest Airways flight on way to Tampa, Florida, flew as little as 150 ft from the bottom whilst it used to be nonetheless just about 5 miles from the airport, flight monitoring information from Flightradar24 displays.

The flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Tampa closing week ended up bypassing Tampa Global Airport and touchdown in Castle Lauderdale. It’s the 3rd reported case of a Southwest flight flying at what seems to be a dangerously low altitude this yr.

“Southwest Flight 425 safely diverted to Castle Lauderdale-Hollywood Global Airport on July 14 after the Staff discontinued their deliberate method into Tampa Global Airport. The airplane returned to Tampa after a short while at the flooring in Castle Lauderdale,” Southwest mentioned in a commentary.

The Federal Aviation Management says it’s investigating the incident.

“Southwest is following its powerful Protection Control Machine and is in touch with the Federal Aviation Management to know and deal with any irregularities,” Southwest’s commentary mentioned. “Not anything is extra vital to Southwest than the Protection of our Consumers and Staff.”

Flightradar24 says the former 3 flights into Tampa flew at an altitude of one,225 ft on the identical level of their descent, an indication of ways a long way off Flight 425 used to be from the place it most probably must had been. The elements on the time used to be deficient, with thunderstorms within the space.

The incident follows two different low altitude incidents involving Southwest flights this yr.

On June 19, Southwest flight 4069 descended to simply 525 ft above the bottom 9 miles from its way to Oklahoma Town. On April 11, Southwest flight 2786 flew simply 400 ft above the sea off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. At one level, that flight used to be descending at 4,000 ft according to minute prior to mountaineering.

Author: OpenAI