A Southwest flight rapidly descended 475 feet to avoid a Hawker Hunter aircraft on Friday, according to flight tracking data and passengers on the plane. About six minutes after Southwest flight 1496 took off from Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles County, it abruptly descended from 14,100 feet to 13,625 feet, according to flightRadar24.

Southwest Flight 1496 took a gut-wrenching nosedive shortly after takeoff to avoid a mid-air crash, causing passengers to fly into the ceiling in panic. Children screamed, a flight attendant resigned mid-air,

A Southwest Airlines flight was reportedly forced to make an abrupt dive Friday in California to evade a potential midair collision shortly after takeoff. Southwest Flight 1496 had just departed from Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank,