Seconds From Disaster: Southwest Airlines Flight Plummeted To 400 Feet Above Pacific Ocean
In April, a Southwest Airlines flight WN2786 from Honolulu to Lihue on Kauai narrowly avoided crashing into the Pacific Ocean, coming within 400 feet of the water.
In an incident that hadn’t previously been reported, but that was covered by an internal Southwest Airlines report noted by Bloomberg, pilots had aborted their initial landing attempt in low visibility caused by bad weather.
The first officer, who had been handling the controls, accidentally pushed the control column forward and then cut speed, causing the plane to drop from approximately 1,000 feet to just 400 feet above the…