‘I thought it was gonna hit my house,’ said witness to flight malfunction.
American megacorporation Boeing is again in the news this week with negative headlines about their seemingly shoddy products.
On Wednesday morning, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 commercial flight suddenly dove as it came into Oklahoma City for a landing.
The aircraft flew less than 500 feet over a residential neighborhood and high school, which set off an alarm at the airport and scared residents.
The pilots were forced to regain altitude and circle around to make a safe approach and landing on a different runway.
The Oklahoman reported on a local resident who posted about the incident on Facebook.
“It woke me up and I thought it was gonna hit my house,” the social media post stated.
The Federal Aviation Administration is now investigating the matter.
Wednesday morning (6/19) just after midnight, Southwest 4069 triggered a low altitude alert at Will Rogers Tower as it approached RW13.
The 737 descended to less than 500 above ground directly over Yukon. pic.twitter.com/5dbyMXQ98F— Dale Denwalt (@denwalt) June 20, 2024
Boeing is also working with NASA to troubleshoot an error on the Starliner spacecraft which is currently housing two American astronauts.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams should have made it back to Earth by June 13, but several issues on the spacecraft have delayed their return.
According to LiveScience.com five separate helium leaks to the spacecraft’s thruster system are responsible for the delay.
The cascade of failures never ends with Boeing. Their mess-ups with the Starliner are causing two astronauts to be stranded on the ISS. Should’ve used SpaceX. pic.twitter.com/zBHtnIa9eO
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 21, 2024
The Starliner is currently docked to an ISS module and with only 45 days worth of fuel for docking, NASA and Boeing engineers are running out of time to fix the issues.
In more bad news for Boeing this week, families of the victims of two Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia are demanding the U.S. Department of Justice criminally prosecute and fine the company up to $25 billion for “the deadliest corporate crime in US history.”
Also, the Dow Jones U.S. stock market index publication Barron’s posted an article on Thursday, declaring, “The Dow Needs to Replace Boeing.”
The article stated:
“Barron’s tried to build a better Dow, one with more dominant players that would be better suited for the index. Boeing was an obvious replacement candidate. The embattled aviation giant has taken many hits to its reputation. The emergency door blowout earlier this year, following past manufacturing problems, demonstrated that its problems were larger. Boeing stock, down 33% this year, has exerted the most downward pressure on the Dow.”
One X user compiled all the recent negative Boeing headlines into one screenshot:
meanwhile, at boeing pic.twitter.com/99GvpojaCb
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) June 21, 2024