FAA investigating Southwest Airlines' near miss of LaGuardia tower

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A Southwest Airlines jet almost hit the air traffic control tower at New York's LaGuardia Airport in the thick of stormy weather last month.

A Southwest Airlines jet arrives at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix on Dec. 28, 2022. Southwest Airlines announced Wednesday, March 20, 2024, that it has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with union flight attendants. (AP Photo/Matt …A Southwest Airlines jet almost hit the air traffic control tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in the thick of stormy weather last month.

Southwest Flight 147 left Nashville International Airport on March 23 at 10:43 a.m. EDT and encountered a storm that stretched from Boston to Baltimore, according to the tracking website FlightAware. The air traffic controller urgently told the pilots to go around the tower and climb to 2,000 feet. The pilot “was not aligned with the runway at all. … He was not gonna land on the runway,” the controller explained to the plane, according to audio from LiveATC.net.

 

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