{"id":375720,"date":"2026-02-25T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-year-old-boy-praised-spotting-discrepancy-southwest-airlines-training-manual\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:05:13","slug":"5-year-old-boy-praised-for-spotting-discrepancy-in-southwest-airlines-training-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=375720","title":{"rendered":"5-Year-Old Boy Praised For Spotting Discrepancy In Southwest Airlines\u2019 Training Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> rewarded a five-year-old boy with a VIP tour of its Dallas headquarters after he spotted a mistake in the airline&#8217;s company <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262304\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/training\/\"  >training<\/a><\/span> manual. Pre-kindergartner William Hines was going through the document when he noticed a discrepancy involving two terrain monitors that did not match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest CEO Bob Jordan invited the aspiring pilot to tour the airline&#8217;s training center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,629,645,2021,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-pilots","category-southwest-airlines","category-training","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375721,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375720\/revisions\/375721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}