WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - Two flight attendants on

a Southwest Airlines ( LUV ) flight departing from Burbank,

California, were injured and being treated on Friday after

pilots took evasive action to avoid another aircraft, the

airline said.

Southwest Flight 1496 sharply descended nearly 500 feet,

according to flight tracking websites.

The airline and the Federal Aviation Administration said

pilots took action after receiving alerts of a potential

collision. The Southwest Boeing 737 continued on to Las Vegas,

where it landed uneventfully.

The FAA is investigating.

No passengers were injured, but a passenger identified as

Caitlin Burdi told Fox News Digital the sharp descent stirred

panic onboard.

"We really thought we were plummeting to a plane crash,"

she was quoted as saying.

According to a statement from Southwest ( LUV ), the incident began

when its crew responded to "two onboard traffic alerts" while

taking off from Burbank, "requiring them to climb and descend to

comply with the alerts."

The incident came a week after a SkyWest Airlines

jet operating as a Delta Connection flight from

Minneapolis reported taking evasive action to avoid a possible

collision with a U.S. Air Force bomber during a landing approach

over North Dakota.

The FAA said on Monday it was investigating last

Friday's near-miss incident involving SkyWest Flight 3788, an

Embraer ERJ-175 regional jet, which landed safely at

Minot, North Dakota.

The Air Force confirmed a B-52 aircraft assigned to

Minot Air Force Base had conducted a flyover of the North Dakota

State Fair last Friday and that military investigators were

looking into the matter.