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Southwest flight almost collides in the air with a jet. Six injured

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By Olivier Acuña Barba
Revealed: 26 Jul 2025 • 22:25
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A privately-owned jet virtually precipitated a tragedy by flying too near a Southwest Airways aeroplane close to Los Angeles | Credit score: Wenjie Zheng/Shutterstock

Passengers initially believed their Southwest flight was experiencing turbulence till the airplane all of a sudden plummeted quickly simply after taking off from Hollywood Burbank Airport on its method to Las Vegas, a number of information shops reported on Saturday.

The crew “responded to 2 onboard site visitors alerts… requiring them to climb and descend to adjust to the alerts”, Southwest mentioned in an official assertion.

Based on CNN, the airplane was almost intercepted by a privately owned Hawker Hunter fighter jet after solely 5 minutes within the air.

The jet crossed lower than two miles in entrance of it, and inside a number of hundred ft of its altitude, CNN reported, citing flight monitoring information. It had departed from El Paso, Texas, and was flying to Oxnard, California. Initially, Southwest reported no accidents have been instantly reported by prospects, though it acknowledged that two flight attendants have been being handled for accidents. 

‘It landed uneventfully’ in Las Vegas

“We recognize the professionalism of our Flight Crew and Flight Attendants in responding to this occasion,” Southwest’s assertion mentioned. “Nothing is extra vital to Southwest than the Security of our Prospects and Staff.”

“The flight continued to Las Vegas, the place it landed uneventfully,” the airline press workplace added. “Southwest is engaged with the Federal Aviation Administration to grasp the circumstances additional.”

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mentioned it was investigating the incident. It comes lower than one week after an analogous near-miss.

“Making certain the protection of everybody within the nationwide airspace system stays our prime precedence,” the FAA assertion added.

Witnessed the near-miss

Humorist Jimmy Dore was on board the airplane and was among the many passengers, saying that the erratic transfer was because of a near-miss with one other airplane.

“Pilot mentioned his collision warning went off & he wanted to keep away from the airplane coming at us. Wow,” Dore wrote on X. “A flight attendant wanted medical consideration.”

He mentioned a number of folks, together with him, “flew out of their seats and bumped heads on the ceiling.”

Caitlin Burdi advised Fox Information that passengers have been “screaming” because the airplane quickly fell. “It was terrifying. We actually thought we have been plummeting to a airplane crash,” she mentioned.

She added that the pilot came visiting the speaker afterwards to say that the airplane had virtually hit one other airplane, and that that they had misplaced contact with air site visitors management.

Stef Zamorano posted a video of herself on X with a person subsequent to her, who she says, out of concern, clenched her arm.

‘We virtually collided with one other airplane’

“I simply bear in mind him saying, ‘What simply occurred was we virtually collided with one other airplane, and I needed to make the emergency try to go underneath as a result of we misplaced service with the air site visitors controller,’” she mentioned.

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This incident comes lower than one week after a Delta regional flight from Minneapolis was compelled to make a sudden evasive manoeuvre to keep away from a US army bomber.

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