The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking into what caused a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 to get within several hundred feet above the ground over the City of Yukon earlier this week.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking into what caused a Southwest Airlines plane to drop within several hundred feet of an Oklahoma neighborhood earlier this week.
Flight data shows Southwest Airlines Flight 4069, a Boeing 737-800 en route to Oklahoma City from Las Vegas, flew as low as 400 feet above the City of Yukon just after 12 a.m. Wednesday morning while on a final approach to Will Rogers World Airport.
Air traffic control audio obtained by Nexstar’s KFOR indicated the plane flew so low that it triggered a “low altitude alert” in the Will Rogers World Airport control tower.
The plane hit its lowest altitude while flying over Yukon High School at 12:06 a.m. Wednesday.
It was loud enough to wake up Spencer Basoco, who lives a few blocks from the school.
“I was kind of like halfway in between sleep being awake, and I just hear this WHOOOSH,” Basoco told KFOR. “And I thought at first, like a storm was blowing in … because it just sounded like a wall of wind. And I looked out the window where the sound was coming from.
