Southwest Airlines passenger shares terrifying video from Boeing 737 MAX that flew far too low over water

A Southwest rider has shared footage aboard a formation that dropped terrifyingly adjacent to nan water arsenic they came into land. 

Nancy Allen had been onboard nan Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by nan hose travelling from Columbus, Ohio, to Tampa, Florida earlier this month. 

While still 4 miles distant from rubbing down successful Tampa, formation information showed it plummeted to conscionable 175 feet supra nan ground. 

An aerial postulation controller had to alert nan unit onboard nan formation of their debased altitude, which saw nan level diverted to Fort Lauderdale immoderate 200 miles away. 

Allen frantically sent her hubby matter messages onboard aft panic started to group successful onboard nan flight. 

Speaking pinch WFLA, she told nan outlet: 'I was concerned we were flying successful a Tampa storm, truthful I opened my window.

'I was watching really we were approaching, we were coming astir MacDill aerial unit guidelines and I cognize you can’t alert complete MacDill unit base, it was conscionable a unsocial approach.'

Cell telephone footage of nan formation shows nan level ascending backmost up aft trying to onshore successful Tampa, earlier it is past redirected to Fort Lauderdale. 

Allen said it was successful that moment, she knew thing was incorrect adding: 'I was emotion a small panic.

'At that infinitesimal I panicked, and I started texting my hubby this is sketchy and I was texting him, abort, abort.' 

With nan formation yet landing safely, Allen said she still wonders astir what precisely happened onboard. 

She added: 'That was nan worst formation I person been connected successful a really agelong time'. 

The quality of nan incident is now being investigated by nan Federal Aviation Administration. 

A connection from nan hose said: 'Southwest Flight 425 safely diverted to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport connected July 14 aft nan Crew discontinued their planned attack into Tampa International Airport. 

'The craft returned to Tampa aft a short clip connected nan crushed successful Fort Lauderdale. Southwest is pursuing its robust Safety Management System and is successful interaction pinch nan Federal Aviation Administration to understand and reside immoderate irregularities pinch nan aircraft’s last approach. 

'Nothing is much important to Southwest than nan Safety of our Customers and Employees.'

This incident comes aft an incredibly akin incident precocious past period erstwhile a Boeing 737 operated by nan hose dropped to little than 500 feet complete Oklahoma. 

The formation was 9 miles distant from Will Rogers World Airport erstwhile it dived to betwixt 400 and 500 feet arsenic it flew complete a precocious schoolhouse successful nan metropolis of Yukon.

Doorbell camera footage showed nan Boeing 737 MAX-8 past hovering supra houses, earlier it flies retired of frame. 

A resident was startled awake by nan plane's motor and wondered if nan craft was group for a collision. 

The Boeing 737 MAX has been plagued by claims of corner-cutting by Boeing, which was blamed for 2 deadly crashes successful 2018 and 2019.

There is not yet immoderate denotation arsenic to whether this week's Tampa play was caused by nan craft aliases aviator error.