A Southwest passenger aboard a flight that was forced to make an evasive maneuver to avoid a mid-air collision said screams filled the cabin as they narrowly missed another aircraft.
Caitlin Burdi told Fox News that she feared for her life aboard the flight on Friday from Burbank, California, to Las Vegas when the jet dropped 475 feet within seconds to avoid colliding with a Hawker Hunter military fighter aircraft in its path.
'About 10 minutes into the flight, we plummeted pretty far, and I looked around, and everyone was like, "OK, that's normal",' Burdi said.
'Then, within two seconds, it felt like the ride Tower of Terror, where we fell 20 to 30 feet in the air. The screaming, it was terrifying. We really thought we were plummeting to a plane crash.
'It was absolutely terrifying, 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 lost service with the air traffic controller."'
