Southwest Flight Dives To Avoid Warbird Jet

There was more sporty airliner maneuvering on Friday as a Southwest flight ducked under a jet warbird during climb-out from Hollywood Burbank Airport in Southern California. The 737’s TCAS went off as the plane was climbing through 14,000 feet and the crew complied with a 500-foot dive to avoid a Hawker Hunter fighter passing through on its way to Point Mugu Air Force base where it was likely to be used as an adversarial aircraft for aerial combat training. Both planes continued their flights and the Southwest flight landed in Las Vegas Ann hour later. Details of the mishap are scant but it was the second conflict between…..

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