{"id":65123,"date":"2024-06-21T22:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=65123"},"modified":"2024-06-21T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:54:26","slug":"southwest-boeing-737-drops-to-500-ft-over-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/21\/southwest-boeing-737-drops-to-500-ft-over-oklahoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Boeing 737 Drops to 500 ft Over Oklahoma, FAA Investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DALLAS-<\/strong> Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials are investigating after a Southwest (WN) <\/a>flight flew unusually low over Oklahoma early Wednesday, triggering an altitude warning from air traffic control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An automated warning sounded, prompting an air traffic controller to alert the pilots of Flight 4069 that the jet had descended to a low altitude nine miles from Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)<\/a> informed USA TODAY<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Southwest Boeing 737 Drops<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The automated system, known as the Minimum Safe Altitude Warning (MSAW), alerts controllers when an aircraft gets too low, according to the FAA’s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Southwest 4069, low altitude alert. You good out there?” the air traffic controller asked just after midnight Wednesday, according to an audio archive of transmissions from LiveATC.net<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flight from Las Vegas, a Boeing 737-800<\/a>, had been cleared for a visual approach from the northwest, according to The Oklahoman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transponder data indicates the plane descended to approximately 500 feet as it passed over a high school in Yukon, a city in Canadian County about 18 miles northwest of downtown Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Aero Icarus | Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Similar Incident<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This incident marks the second altitude-related event at Southwest Airlines in just over two months currently under FAA investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 11, Southwest Flight WN2786 dropped to 400 feet above the Pacific Ocean near a Hawaiian island, reported FAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a memo Southwest distributed to pilots, obtained by Bloomberg<\/em>, the plane briefly descended at “an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute” before the pilots pulled up to avoid crashing into the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flight crew executed a “roller coaster maneuver,” as reported by the outlet, to prevent a collision with the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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