5 months ago
25
A
Southwest Airlines passenger flight
in April came within 400 feet of slamming into the ocean off the coast of
Hawaii
after
weather conditions
forced pilots to bypass a
landing attempt
. The Boeing 737 Max 8 jet briefly dropped at an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute before the flight crew pulled up to avoid disaster, according to a memo that Southwest distributed to pilots last week, which was seen by Bloomberg News.
No one was injured on the flight, which safely returned to its departure airport in Honolulu. The US Federal Aviation Administration said it was probing the incident.
