OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking into what caused a Southwest Airlines plane to drop within several hundred feet of an Oklahoma neighborhood earlier this week.
Flight data shows Southwest Airlines Flight 4069, a Boeing 737-800 en route to Oklahoma City from Las Vegas, flew as low as 400 feet above the City of Yukon just after 12 a.m. Wednesday morning while on a final approach to Will Rogers World Airport.
Air traffic control audio obtained by Nexstar’s KFOR indicated the plane flew so low that it triggered a “low altitude alert” in the Will Rogers World Airport control tower.
The plane hit its lowest altitude while flying over Yukon High School at 12:06 a.m. Wednesday.
It was loud enough to wake up Spencer Basoco, who lives a few blocks from the school.
“I was kind of like halfway in between sleep being awake, and I just hear this …