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What: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 en route from Houston to Baltimore
Where: Houston
When: Apr 28th 2010
Who: 135 passengers and 5 crew
Why: Over Houston, both the helicopter pilot and the plane pilot noticed their proximity and took evasive action. (Their separation was 100 feet vertically and 125 feet laterally.) Apparently after both got clearance, the helicopter converged on the Boeing’s flight path. The Boeing pilot’s only option to avoid the helicopter was to fly under him.
Delta Airlines flight DL-284 had to return and make an emergency landing in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 2nd.
