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US FAA probes latest Southwest Airlines flight that posed safety issues

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Saturday it is investigating a Southwest Airlines flight after it flew at a very low altitude over Tampa Bay, Florida, the most recent in a series of incidents raising safety questions. The July 14 flight by a Southwest Boeing 737 MAX that had departed from Columbus, Ohio, was approximately 3 miles (5 km)from the Tampa airport when it dropped to as low as about 175 feet (53 meters), according to Flightradar24 data. An air traffic controller alerted… (www.msn.com) More...

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patpylot
patrick baker 6
i will be following this event as it is sorted out. THere is no reason for that lapse of altitude control. THere was two pilots entrusted with preventing this thing and they failed.

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blackstock
I speculate in another post that it was a good way to overwrite the CVR. Fly to Ft. Lauderdale, leave power on as much as possible during refuel, fly back to Tampa (although it's unclear if they original crew made the final leg).
blackstock
I'm guessing the flight diversion to Ft. Lauderdale was a good way to overwrite the CVR. Whoops we left power on.
locomoco
M.F. LaBoo 5
"Coconuts off the starboard wing, Cap'n"
yr2012
matt jensen 3
Pilots checking out the causeway beaches for GF
briansfreeman
Brian Freeman 2
We need cameras in cockpits immediately.

It is revolutionizing the policing industry and would be invaluable as a training and investigative tool in the cockpit. Just think of the number of examples off the top of your head where cockpit cameras would answer innumerable questions.

Don't passenger lives matter??
thomasbuemi1454
Thomas Buemi 1
Yup what is this app BS. I went back to the story and was directed to the app
nasdisco
Chris B 0
Lets have articles in full not requiring downloading apps to read.
volvodadfast
volvodadfast 9
You can click to expand the article without downloading the app. It right under the blue button.
wcraycroft
Warren Craycroft 0
A flight on a night time final approach to the Nice France airport mistakenly lined up on the bright orange lights of the nearby shoreline boulevard. When the crew realized their mistake, the plane was a few hundred feet above the ground. The crew aborted the landing and then, without gaining altitude and engines screaming, hedge-hopped across the rooftops for miles across the city of Nice to get back to the approach. There were thousands of terrified citizens reporting that a plan had crashed in their neighborhoods. Not sure what the crew was thinking. Maybe if they stayed low enough no one would notice?
2sheds
2sheds 2
Maybe they were trying to fly below enemy radar.
Uh... wait ... who...where was this?
jbermo
jbermo -1
These are perhaps additional examples that support the argument for autonomous flight.

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