Federal investigators have announced that they are looking into a Southwest Airlines flight following safety concerns after it flew too low before landing.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a Southwest Airlines flight that flew at a very low altitude over its intended destination before landing somewhere else. Southwest flight 425 left John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, at 4:04 p.m. July 14, according to aviation website FlightAware. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 was headed for Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida.
Both the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating a Southwest Boeing 737 MAX flight on May 25 that experienced a "Dutch roll" at 34,000 feet while en route from Phoenix to Oakland, California. Such lateral asymmetric movements are named after a Dutch ice skating technique and can pose serious safety risks.
The same two federal agencies told FOX Business that they are also looking into an incident that occurred at Portland International Jetport in Maine on June 25, when a Southwest Airlines flight took off from a closed runway. FOX Business' Daniella Genovese and Reuters contributed to this report.
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