Diversion — SWA851

SWA851 (Southwest Airlines) was operating from KBNA to KJAX (Jacksonville International Airport) on 2026-08-23. SkyMeter detected a diversion to Deep Forest Airport (FD48) on runway 18 at 17:01 UTC. Peak cruise altitude FL368, turnaround area near McDonough, US. Approach stability score: 34/100. Scores below 50 occur on under 10% of approaches at this runway and indicate the v2 scorer flagged the approach as highly anomalous (three or more gates exceeded the runway's P90 envelope simultaneously). METAR at the time reported 1 kt wind, 1 kt crosswind component. Detection algorithm and known limitations: see SkyMeter methodology.

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