Southwest, Hawker Hunter and flightradar24
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The pilots of the Hawker Hunter reported having the Southwest plane in sight, but were not properly instructed by air traffic control
Alarms sounded in the cockpit of a Southwest Airlines jet shortly after taking off from Hollywood Burbank airport near Los Angeles on Friday, prompting evasive maneuvers, the airline said in a statement.
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TravelPulse on MSNSouthwest Airlines Plane and Fighter Jet Have Near Miss in Los AngelesThe Southwest Boeing 737 departed just before noon local time on Friday for a scheduled flight to Las Vegas. Six minutes after takeoff, a privately owned Hawker Hunter fighter jet crossed less than two miles in front of the Southwest plane, passing within a few hundred feet of the same altitude, according to flight tracking site Flightradar24.
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Southwest passengers 'hurled out of their seats and onto plane's CEILING to avoid mid-air collisionSouthwest passengers were hurled out of their seats and onto ... to Las Vegas dropped 475 feet within seconds to avoid crashing into a Hawker Hunter fighter aircraft in its path. Flight 1496 was climbing towards its cruising altitude on the 73-minute ...