Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
Also looking at other sources, it appears that this may have been bad data and certainly not worthy of the headline. Another ADSB tracking website only had them <300' below the published altitude and they quickly corrected. Clearly it triggered a tower low altitude alert, but I don't think this issue was on par with the previous incidents and I am guessing that SWA being the latest for their turn in the barrel has a lot to do with why this even came out at all.
Certainly not great being below any published altitude, don't get me wrong, I just don't see this being worthy of panic and mayhem.
Yeah I think we are seeing more news about such things due to random people being able to monitor ATC via the interwebs, and then quickly produce a youtube video anytime they hear "low altitude alert" or "Go Around". You can get a tower low altitude alert on some non-precision approaches just by descending below the published MDA on a 3* path after visually acquiring the runway.