Two Southwest Airlines flight attendants are being treated for injuries after a passenger jet heading to Las Vegas from southern California took a dramatic plunge shortly after takeoff on Friday, the airline and passengers said.
Southwest flight 1496, headed from Burbank to Las Vegas, received two alerts that made the plane climb and then descend, according to a statement from Southwest.
Reported by ABC and according to flight trackers FlightRadar24 and AirNavRadar, the plane avoided a collision with a Hawker Hunter jet, currently registered to a Non-Citizen Corporation, according to FAA registration logs.
Southwest said that the flight continued to Las Vegas, where it landed “uneventfully”, and that the airline is working with the FAA to “further understand the circumstances of the event”.
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