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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSouthwest pilot to passengers: 'We're going down'
The pilot of a Southwest Airlines flight gave passengers a scare Tuesday when he announced over the loudspeaker that the plane was "going down."
"He said, 'We're going down,'" Shelley Wills, one of the passengers on the Boeing 737 en route from Tampa, Fla., to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, told ABC's affiliate there. "And everyone is looking around like, 'Is this a joke? Is he serious?' And then you felt the nosedive."
"At first it sounded like someone was coming over the PA to talk," Grace Stroud, another passenger, told CNN. "Then it sounded like shots through the cabin, twice, back to back. Seconds later, the panicked captain said, 'We're in trouble, we're going down.'"
Wills said she tried to console a woman seated next to her who was clutching her chest. "I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, she's going to scare herself into a heart attack,'" Wills said.
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Southwest pilot to passengers: 'We're going down' (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Nov 2013
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Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)1. I love trains. n/t
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)2. I am curiously drawn to train wrecks
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)3. Probably because...
...you're evil.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)4. What was the outcome? Maybe pilot playing prank on rookie co-pilot?
Was there ever actual danger?
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)5. Read the story and watch the video..
tis all there
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)6. I watched video. Still confused.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)7. The plane dropped a bit...but they pulled into another airport
emergency landing, but they did not require any fire trucks or have the passengers slide down the emergency slides.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)9. That's just nuts