Southwest Airlines Flight 425 was cruising over the waters of Tampa Bay the evening of July 14 when passengers were startled by a sharp jolt upward.
What passengers weren’t told at the time is that the plane’s rapid descent toward the water put them one wind gust away from disaster, according to aviation experts.
The incident began around 7 p.m. that Sunday more than four miles out from Tampa International Airport as the plane dipped below the clouds and took a final descent that felt normal to most on board.
The descent stopped when air traffic control radioed the plane with a low altitude alert. The aircraft flew within 150 feet of the water — just over the length of the plane’s wingspan — before climbing back to safety.
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