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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on April 06, 2024, 02:16:55 pm
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Southwest Airlines flight in near miss with LaGuardia Airport's control tower: FAA investigating how plane with 150 passengers on board veered off course before air traffic controllers screamed 'Go around, go around!'
Southwest Flight 147 came within 67 feet of the air traffic control tower
Plane was ordered to fly up and was then diverted to an airport in Baltimore
FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board have launched investigations
By Mitchell Goodbar For Dailymail.Com
Published: 09:32 EDT, 5 April 2024 | Updated: 11:33 EDT, 5 April 2024
A Southwest plane came perilously close to hitting LaGuardia Airport's air traffic control tower.
Southwest Flight 147 from Nashville to New York veered off course when coming in for a landing on March 23 around 1 pm because of inclement weather.
The Boeing 737 plane, which had 150 people on board, came within 67 feet of the control tower.
The plane circled the airport once and then swooped down as low as 300 feet, creating panic in the air traffic control tower.
In audio captured by LiveATC.net, air traffic control personnel can be heard shouting: 'Go around! Go around!'
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13275935/Southwest-Airlines-flight-near-miss-LaGuardia-Airports-control-tower-FAA-investigating-plane-150-passengers-board-veered-course-air-traffic-controllers-screamed-around.html
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That tower had it coming.
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"67 feet"? That's a pretty dang accurate assessment...not "100", not "200", but "67". :smokin:
I'd like to know how that was figured out.
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"67 feet"? That's a pretty dang accurate assessment...not "100", not "200", but "67". :smokin:
I'd like to know how that was figured out.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6fltSqImFM)