Southwest flight descends 475 feet to avoid ‘midair collision’ with Hawker Hunter
According to flight tracking data and passengers on the plane, the southwest flight quickly landed on Friday to avoid a Hawker hunter aircraft.
According to Flightradar24, about six minutes after the Southwest Flight 1496’s Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County suddenly landed from the Hollywood Burbank Airport to 13,625 feet.
ABC News, “the pilot said,” He announced that they have announced that they have realized the maneuver to avoid collision in an air.
Southwest Airlines said in a statement that two flight officials were treated for injuries after the incident.
Stock Image/Getty Images – Photo: This is a Southwest Airlines aircraft approaching San Francisco International Airport on September 1, 2019.
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The other aircraft, a Hawker hunter with a N335AX number, was about 14,653 feet heights when the southwest flight began to descend.
A source told ABC News, at that time there was more than one Hawker Hunter plane in the area that had a normal operation.
Southwest said that the flight continued to target Las Vegas and “descended without incidents”. The airline added that the event is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to “better understand the conditions”.
When a plane’s avoidance system detects a possible collision, the plane will go up or down, and the other plane will make the opposite. Pre -data indicate that the planes are a few miles away when the pilots receive their warnings.
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