Emergency landing at KLAX Southwest 1445

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Uploaded by on Mar 21, 2011

Southwest 1445 looses the inertial navigation and it is brought down by vectors all the way to the localizer minimums at LAX

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  • Have I understood this correctly? Visibility must've been very poor if they needed vectors right down to the approach minimums, so they are relying on the controller for terrain avoidance. If I've got that right then wow, that's some trust exercise.

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  • This is incredible, I was actually on this flight. I recall the flight taking a little longer than usual and landing on runway 25L with emergency vehicles meeting our plane after touching down.

  • @oktal3700 He had no other way of navigating because his IRS was out and visibility was poor

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