The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into a March 22nd flight that was blown off its path while landing in bad weather and came within four car lengths of a control tower at LaGuardia Airport in New York, CBS News reports.
Southwest Flight 147 from Nashville was coming in for a 1 p.m. landing when the tower saw it was not on the correct path. “Go around! Go around!” Fly runway heading, climb and maintain 2,000. Climb and maintain 2,000. 2,000,” the tower is heard telling the pilots on a recording of communications. As the pilots pulled the plane around for another attempt, the controller in the tower radioed that the flight “was not aligned with the runway at all. It was like east of final. He was not gonna land on the runway.”
Online real-time flight tracker Flightradar24 showed the flight flew over the control tower and then over a nearby parking garage, hitting a low of 300 feet before increasing altitude. The airport’s tower is 233-feet tall.