Southwest Airlines flight to Hawaiian island plunges, comes within 400 feet of Pacific Ocean: Report
A Southwest Airlines flight from Honolulu to Kauai came just 400 feet from slamming into the Pacific Ocean after the pilots encountered treacherous weather conditions.
Anyone figure out yet who was on it, and when they were scheduled to testify against Hillary?
The few times Ive flown between Hawaiian Islands it was on a Hawaiian Airlines puddle jumper not a 737 Max. If Southwest is making these runs its something newish.
Also the distance between Honolulu and Lihaue is only about 125 miles. You dont go to 16000 feet for that distance. Its only a 25 minute flight. Ive flown dozens of times between Chicago and Detroit. Thats double the distance (250 miles) and we only went up to around 10k feet.
So is this comms of some sort? Because the article isnt believable.
Edit: I couldnt find anything about how high a plane would fly between these two points but I did find an estimate for how far a plane travels to ascend of descend 1000 feet. Three miles per 1000 feet. So of the 125 miles trip it would take about 48 miles to ascend and then 48 miles to descend, leaving 29 miles at altitude. May be plausible I suppose but still doesnt sound right.
Yes. This story doesn't make sense. Sensationalism? Trying to smear Boeing a bit more?
They were landing, so why does it say they dropped from 16,000ft to 400ft? Apparently, the pilot flying apparently hadn't stabilized the landing and the pilot monitoring (captain) called for a go-around. There was no death defying plunge from 16kft to pull out just 400ft above the ocean.
On a normal flight it takes about 10 minutes to get to cruising altitude at least. I would love to hear from pilots that fly that route. Why would you climb over 5000 feet for a 22 minute flight?
Move the decimal point and that is how high to go. Example - 125 miles would be 12,500. But they are flying under IFR rules, so you can’t do the 500’. And flying westbound has to be an even number. So the optimal altitude would be 12,000’ or 14,000’. Going up to 16,000 wouldn’t be horrible, especially to get over some cumulus clouds.
More examples-
400 miles = 40,000’
50 miles = 5,000’
Note- Mileage is in Nautical Miles, not Statute Miles.
Awesome
I just looked at the NM distance…it is 90nm. So, 10,000 is what I would choose if there were no clouds or turbulence.
If you've never seen it, Mentour Pilot on YouTube does excellent and comprehensive incident reports on airliner accidents. I would expect that he will do videos on these incidents. This article is nonsense.
from the comments:
The minimum altitude for ILS 35 into Lihue is 296'. The aircraft did not plummet from 16,000' to within 400' of the ocean. It descended normally on the approach until the crew lost sight of required parts of the landing environment and initiated a go around. At that time THEN the problem occurred after the first officer reduced power and pushed forward on the control yoke (pitching the aircraft down). However they never went lower than minimums (were well above in fact) for that approach and other than passenger discomfort is a nonstory.
Wew - glad I made it to Kauai in one piece! 😂😂😂
Was reading about a Chyna Boeing clone. I think these are shill narrative building commie articles to get the world to accept the Chyna clone plane. They are systematically destroying Boeing. I wonder if there is a similar GameStop insider dealing issue too. The usual suspects are at it again.
It's looking just like that. Frankly I think we're going to unleash new technology that's going to Trump all the snail air traffic in the sky. No more noise, pollution, expense, Danger, take forever to get anywhere, at the mercy of the weather, no leg room, horse shit. Air travel used to be high class travel, now it's like Greyhound.
kudos to the experienced pilot that didn't loose his shit and avoided a tragedy...
Communists do no like their inmates moving around. (+ depopulation).
"Beepin'? I don hear no beepin'"