A Southwest flight rapidly descended 475 feet to avoid a Hawker Hunter aircraft on Friday, according to flight tracking data and passengers on the plane. About six minutes after Southwest flight 1496 took off from Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles County, it abruptly descended from 14,100 feet to 13,625 feet, according to flightRadar24.

A Southwest flight plunged 475 feet after Burbank takeoff to avoid a mid-air crash with a military jet; video of the dive went viral on Flightradar24.

The pilot of the Boeing 737 was forced to nosedive the plane about 300ft in just 36 seconds to avoid crashing into a British fighter jet that was in the vicinity