The abrupt drop happened after two safety alerts sounded in the cockpit, the second such incident involving commercial flights in a week, according to the statement.

Two flight attendants on a Southwest Airlines flight departing from Burbank, California were injured and being treated on Friday after pilots took evasive action to avoid another aircraft, the airline...

"Pilot said his collision warning went off & he needed to avoid plane coming at us. Wow," Dore wrote on X.

"It was absolutely terrifying," Burdi said. "I just remember him saying, ‘What just happened was we almost collided with another plane, and I had to make the emergency attempt to go under because we ...