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FAA Investigates Southwest Flight That Dropped Within 150 Feet From Water

Tuesday, 23 July 2024, 10:00 MJA Uncategorized 18

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a Southwest Airlines flight that dropped dangerously close to the water on approach to Tampa, Florida.

According to reports, the aircraft came within 150 feet of the water off the coast before regaining altitude and diverting to Fort Lauderdale.

“Southwest Flight 425 safely diverted to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on July 14 after the crew discontinued their planned approach into Tampa International Airport. The aircraft returned to Tampa after a short time on the ground in Fort Lauderdale,” Southwest said in a statement, according to UPI.

“Southwest is following its robust Safety Management System and is in contact with the Federal Aviation Administration to understand and address any irregularities. Nothing is more important to Southwest than the safety of our customers and employees,” the statement added. more

18 Comments on FAA Investigates Southwest Flight That Dropped Within 150 Feet From Water

  2. Either someone/something is messing with the instrumentation and/or the pilots and copilots are overtasked and undertrained for certain situations…or the jab messed up their brains.

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  4. All in nasty weather?

    I’d rather have my pilot skim the surface and thread needles to stay out cumulonimbus turbulence!

    Something smells about this. Pilot teams just don’t doze off during approach. No one is yet talking about control system failures…

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  8. General Malaise
    TUESDAY, 23 JULY 2024, 10:58 AT 10:58 AM
    “SNS – Windows XP-Embedded wasn’t too bad for remote instrumentation app’s. 🙂”

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    So dont do it…

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  9. @Thirdtwin:

    I am shocked that the first word in the headline is not “Boeing”.

    Maybe the writer erroneously assumed that “everybody knows” that Southwest from its inception has never flown anything but Boeing 737s.

    If they’ve started flying anything else, it sure hadn’t made the news.

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  11. In IFR training, you must learn about optical illusions that can get pilots into dangerous situations. One of those illusions is called, “the black hole illusion”. If you approach a well lit runway at night over a large patch of unlit land or water, you feel like you’re flying at a higher altitude than you really are. That’s why even on visual approaches, many commercial airlines still train their pilots to follow the ILS or RNAV glide paths anyway to ensure proper minimum altitude is kept the entire way. A lazy or overconfident pilot may just decide to eyeball the approach and forget to monitor their altitude properly. Planes crash every year from this kind of error.

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  16. Uncle Al

    “Southwest from its inception has never flown anything but Boeing 737s.”

    Both my sons are pilots, and I did not know that. I reckon some journo missed his chance to pike on Boeing. Or matbe word has come down from on high to lay off the Boeing stuff for a while.

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  17. @Thirdtwin — I just realized that Southwest did in fact fly a few 727s (the 3-engine hotrods) in the early days. But other than those, it has been 100% 737s all the way. I’m fairly sure that Southwest has the largest fleet of 737s in the world.

    They were my airline of choice back when I was doing a fair amount of flying. The toilet paper roll relay races were always the high point (pun intended) of the flights.

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