FAA investigating possible close call between Southwest Airlines jet, air traffic control tower

FAA investigating possible close call between Southwest Airlines jet, air traffic control tower

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating whether a Southwest Airlines level came adjacent to an aerial postulation power building aft it veered disconnected people during an attempted landing astatine LaGuardia Airport successful New York City.

On March 23, astir 1 p.m., an aerial postulation controller instructed nan unit of Flight 147 to execute a go-around astatine LaGuardia Airport. The level had veered disconnected people owed to inclement weather, according to nan FAA.

Southwest told FOX Business that nan formation had encountered "turbulence and debased visibility" astatine nan airport. 

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The formation diverted and landed successful Baltimore. 

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A Southwest commercialized airliner takes disconnected from Las Vegas International Airport successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected Feb. 8, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo / Reuters Photos)

The FAA told FOX Business successful a connection that it "is investigating and will find if nan craft flew complete nan building astatine LaGuardia."

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Separately, nan hose said it is "reviewing nan arena arsenic portion of our information systems."

A go‐around occurs erstwhile an arriving craft aborts its landing process and returns to nan landing queue, according to nan San Francisco International Airport. 

According to nan FAA airplane flying handbook, "if location is simply a uncertainty complete nan landing surface, nan pilot should spell around and see nan business further."  

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Southwest wasn't nan only bearer forced to instrumentality nan process that day successful March. 

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JetBlue Flight 698, which was besides trying to onshore astatine LaGuardia, encountered upwind shear, which forced nan level to abort its landing. 

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Wind shear occurs erstwhile location is simply a alteration successful upwind velocity aliases guidance complete a short distance, according to nan FAA. 

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