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Follow: Federal agencies See your latest updates Aerial view over the airport of Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, USA with view over the runway to the coastline. 31 Jul 2016 Video Ad Feedback This flight came within 400 feet of crashing, ex-pilot explains what went wrong 02:27 - Source: CNN Latest Videos 19 videos Aerial view over the airport of Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, USA with view over the runway to the coastline. 31 Jul 2016 Video Ad Feedback This flight came within 400 feet of crashing, ex-pilot explains what went wrong 02:27 Now playing - Source: CNN In a image taken from May 1, 2024 video, provided by Hard Working Movies, Pamela Smart makes a statement at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y. Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday, June 11, 2024, as part of her latest sentence reduction request. 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Flight tracking data from ADS-B Exchange shows the plane dropping at a rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute while only 600 feet above sea level. The Boeing 737 Max 8 flew as low as 400 feet before rapidly climbing. "Nothing is more important to Southwest than Safety," the airline said. "Through our robust Safety Management System, the event was addressed appropriately as we always strive for continuous improvement." In a brief statement to CNN, Southwest acknowledged the incident but did not address the memo or why the incident took place. The Federal Aviation Administration said it learned of the incident immediately and opened an investigation. The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association has not commented. The flight was an inter-island hop from the main Honolulu airport to Lihue airport on the neighboring island of Kauai. The internal memo said the pilots decided to abort a landing there in bad weather, according to Bloomberg. Tracking data shows the plane then returned to Honolulu. In December 2022, a United Airlines flight departing a different Hawaiian airport also dove toward the ocean in bad weather, coming 748 feet from disaster, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB concluded the pilots miscommunicated about the settings of the airplane's flaps. The NTSB has not yet said whether it will investigate this latest incident. 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