A United Airlines flight suddenly took a steep dive shortly after take off from a Hawaiian airport, plunging 1,400 feet to within 775 feet of the Pacific Ocean.
The incident happened on Dec. 18, just 71 seconds after United Flight UA1722 took off from Kahului Airport at 2:49 p.m. local time from the island of Maui en route to San Fransisco, according to data from flight tracking service flightradar24.
The Boeing 777-200 reached roughly 2,200 feet in altitude before abruptly descending to 775 feet at a rate of nearly 8,600 feet per minute before quickly recovering and resuming its climb to a normal cruising altitude of 33,000 feet, aviation industry blog The Air Current reported….