Southwest Airlines Flight WN1285 Denver-San Francisco declares emergency

35 minutes into a flight and in 19,000 feet Southwest Airlines flight WN1285 from Denver to San Francisco declared an emergency .

35 minutes into a flight and in 19,000 feet Southwest Airlines flight WN1285 from Denver to San Francisco declared an emergency .

A minute after the plane crossed the Utah State line, the Boeing 747-7H4 with registration N902WN is heading back towards Denver cruising in low altitude in only 19,000 feet.

20 minutes after declaring an emergency, the captain maintains heading back towards Denver but cancelled the emergency mode and appears on a routine approach to Denver maintaining only 19,000 feet.


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Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
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