Flight from Hawaii plunged into extreme dive before recovering



New details are emerging of a serious close-call involving a United flight on December 18th in Hawaii, where the plane went into an extreme, unexplained dive. NBC News’ Tom Costello has more on the incident and other recent close-calls.

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32 comments

  1. The aviation industry is clearly in a crisis. There is too much demand for travel and not enough pilots they are overworked and understaffed. The pandemic has put a huge hit to the industry and I think we are seeing the result of that now. I’m happy no one has gotten hurt at least. These pilots and flight attendants are doing the most!

  2. Shortage of trained pilots, I guess.

  3. Maybe they seen a Chinese balloon???

  4. Not surprised! Kids maintaining jets.

  5. WTH is wrong with our pilots and ATC lately

  6. From what I hear, the NTSB and FAA will not be investigating this particular incident since there were no injuries reported.

  7. And the pilots were both forced to take additional training.

  8. so what happened with the triple 7? Was that Mcast or what

  9. What a miracle! Glad everyone is okay!

  10. Oh wait ppl in aviation can’t work forever? They need to pass the job on to the generation? I don’t think so…we need automation. What’s a learning curve? When it comes to clusterphoks in heavy traffic, I need a central processor to sort it all out.
    -any woman ever.

  11. China weather ballons are doing it

  12. Chinese weather balloons? The latest things shot down?

  13. Another reason why I stay home.

  14. Wasn't there a sensor failure issue with Airbus some years back that was causing planes to nose dive??

  15. Seems like this year is air craft problems. Scary! This year I don’t plan to travel anywhere .

  16. Love it how suddenly the whole comment section is filled with aviation experts 😂

  17. This is why I don’t do planes

  18. And honestly NTSB??.Did you watch Tucker last night??

  19. I got stoned with some pilots once, they had a few hrs between flights..like I did . bra…Aloha.. hahaha

  20. Pilot shortage results in lower quality

  21. 7000 feet a minute that’s 116 feet a second

  22. There's a saying with the German Airforce: If it is Boeing, I'm not going.

  23. Perhaps one of those empty 32 TopSecret folders has an airline connection. Then we have multiple balloons traversing the country? What’s next

  24. Pull her ticket.
    She's not sound to fly.

  25. On avg .. per day… theres roughly 25,000 commercial flights in the US alone.

    Chill tf out

  26. once we find out china can remote control planes, the sleeping giant will awake.

  27. Affirmative action is now affecting airplane safety, in case you weren’t aware. Why should we hire competent pilots when we could hire more women and minorities?

  28. Why are you just now talking about this if happened back in December don’t make since to me