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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

FAA investigating after Southwest plane flies 525ft above Oklahoma town

Passenger jet of mostly bright blue, with stripe of orange and red on tail.
A Southwest Airlines plane in 2023. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Southwest Airlines fight after it flew several hundred feet above a neighborhood in Yukon, Oklahoma.

Shortly after 12am on Wednesday, Southwest flight 4069 – a Boeing 737 from Las Vegas – was approximately nine miles away from Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World airport when it dipped to approximately 525ft above Yukon, according to flight data from Flightradar24.com.

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