A Boeing 777 cargo plane made a very low pass over a private airport runway in Horseshoe Bay, Texas, flying dangerously close to the ground. According to ABC News, video of the flight posted on the social platform X showed the jumbo jet sweeping over the airstrip at an unusually low altitude.
The footage showed the wide-body aircraft approaching the runway without its landing gear deployed. The right wing of the plane appeared to nearly touch the ground as it passed over the field.
Flight-tracking data from Flight Radar 24 indicated that the aircraft was just 25 feet from the ground, an extraordinarily low altitude for a plane of that size.
The low pass took place over the runway at Horseshoe Bay, in central Texas, on Wednesday. The incident drew wider attention after the clip began circulating online.
In a statement, the company that owns the registered aircraft said the plane had been conducting a low pass flight. It acknowledged that the maneuver did not reflect its operational standards.
The footage captured the moment the jet swept just above the runway, an image that quickly spread across social media and raised questions about how a jumbo jet came to fly so close to the ground at a private airfield.
An observer described the danger of such a maneuver, noting that the aircraft flies so low that it almost scrapes its belly, and comes close to catching a wingtip when it banks, calling the move dangerous.