statement<\/a>, Jetran said that the plane “was undergoing a final pre\u2011delivery test flight prior to its planned entry into the Qatar Airways Cargo fleet.”<\/p>\n“While the aircraft is painted in Qatar Airways livery, it was not owned or operated by Qatar Airways, did not carry a Qatar Airways registration, and the pilots on board were not Qatar Airways pilots,” Jetran said.<\/p>\n
“We expect the relevant parties and authorities to investigate this matter thoroughly and take appropriate action,” the company added.<\/p>\n
Qatar Airways confirmed on Saturday that the aircraft in the video is owned by a leasing company, not the airline.<\/p>\n
“The aircraft was undergoing a pre-delivery test flight prior to its planned entry into our cargo fleet,” the airline said in a statement. “The flight was not operated by Qatar Airways and the pilots were not our personnel.”<\/p>\n
Former National Transportation Safety Board Chair Robert Sumwalt told CBS News the pilots could face having their credentials suspended over the move, calling it “another example of stupid pilot tricks.”<\/p>\n
“I see no legitimate reason at all to perform this maneuver the way that it was done,” Sumwalt said. “They clearly had planned it, they had an audience standing by to watch it and to video it, so there’s no real reason why they should have been doing this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Boeing 777 plane was seen taking a very low pass over Central Texas as it approached the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2143,504,100346,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-354059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-central-texas","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-qatar-airways","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}