The worst has been avoided. A Boeing 737 of the American company Southwest Airlines, which had just taken off from Burbak airport near Los Angeles to go to Las Vegas, had to leave after six minutes of flight, that is to say that it made a maneuver to lose altitude in the order to avoid a collision with a private generation hunting plane, a hunter of street vendors.
The American Media Abc News informs that Southwest Airlines’s plane suddenly won “475 feet, or about 144 meters. According to CNN, two alarms against the collision began on the plane. The plane then climbed.
Two injured crew members
Two crew members were slightly injured during the incident, but the rest of the flight was without problems.
A source interviewed by ABC News reports that other Hawker hunters were present in the area and were carrying out routine operations. CNN indicates that the Hunter of street vendors involved belongs to the private operator Hunter Aviation International.
The American Civil Aviation Agency (FAA) has launched an investigation to determine the exact circumstances of the incident.
Source: BFM TV
