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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Martha McHardy

Boeing 737 inexplicably flies 500 feet over neighborhood: ‘Thought it was gonna hit my house’

AP

A Southwest Airlines passenger jet flew worrying close to an Oklahoma City suburb early Wednesday morning, triggering an altitude alert.

According to data from Flightradar24, the plane descended to about 525 feet above the ground as it passed over Oklahoma City suburbs on the way to Will Rogers World Airport. The Boeing 737-800, which had taken off from Las Vegas, was flying over Yukon at the time, roughly nine miles away from the airport.

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