Southwest flight heading for Oklahoma City dives to 500 feet above neighborhood

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating a Southwest Airlines flight that dropped to around 500 feet from the ground earlier this week during a missed approach while landing at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport, reports say. 

Data from the flight-tracking website FlightAware shows that the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet was flying low over Yukon – a city on the outskirts of Oklahoma City – around midnight on Wednesday before gaining altitude, circling around and landing about 10 minutes later. 

«Southwest 4069, low altitude alert. You good out there?» an air traffic controller was heard asking the pilot, according to The Oklahoman. 

The aircraft’s low flight path sparked concern on social media, with one local resident writing «it woke me up and I thought it was [going to] hit my house,» the newspaper added. 

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Ramp agents load luggage onto a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 airplane at Baltimore-Washington Airport in Baltimore in April. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 came to around 500 feet from the ground this week in Oklahoma City during a missed a (Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Officials at the airport later told The Oklahoman that Southwest 4069, which departed from Las Vegas, had missed its approach but that there were no issues with the aircraft. 

The FAA has now launched an investigation into the matter, according to Reuters. 

«Southwest is following its robust Safety Management System and is in contact with the Federal