Video shows Boeing 777 making very low pass over Texas airfield

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A Boeing 777 level was seen taking a precise debased walk implicit Central Texas arsenic it approached the Horseshoe Bay Resort Jet Center airdrome this week, video shows.

Data from formation tracking work FlightRadar24 showed the level was nary much than 25 feet supra the crushed during the debased walk connected Wednesday.

Pilots had alerted the aerial postulation power operation to the maneuver, according to audio from LiveATC.net: "We are turning last runway 17 for a debased approach, 5DN heavy."

The Federal Aviation Administration says it's investigating.

The level is owned by Jetran, a institution based successful Horseshoe Bay.

In a statement, Jetran said that the level "was undergoing a last pre‑delivery trial formation anterior to its planned introduction into the Qatar Airways Cargo fleet."

"While the craft is painted successful Qatar Airways livery, it was not owned oregon operated by Qatar Airways, did not transportation a Qatar Airways registration, and the pilots connected committee were not Qatar Airways pilots," Jetran said.

"We expect the applicable parties and authorities to analyse this substance thoroughly and instrumentality due action," the institution added.

Qatar Airways deferred CBS News to Jetran.

Former National Transportation Safety Board Chair Robert Sumwalt told CBS News the pilots could look having their credentials suspended implicit the move, calling it "another illustration of anserine aviator tricks."

"I spot nary morganatic crushed astatine each to execute this maneuver the mode that it was done," Sumwalt said. "They intelligibly had planned it, they had an assemblage lasting by to ticker it and to video it, truthful there's nary existent crushed wherefore they should person been doing this."

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