Southwest Airlines: Our Boeing 737s not all they’re cracked up to be: In an inspection of their fleet of 737s following a plane’s emergency landing last week, the airline says that five of their planes had fuselage cracks in them. Kevin Smith’s PR flub no longer looks so bad. source
Was the aircraft well maintained and should it have been maintained better? That is exactly why we are here, to look at why this problem occurred… We did find evidence of widespread cracking across this entire fracture surface.NTSB member Robert Sumwalt • Speaking at a press conference regarding the nearly calamitous defect on Southwest Airlines Flight 812 last Friday, which tore open a piece of the overhead fuselage. Some 300 flights have been canceled to free up the Southwest 737s now subject to inspection, “aircraft skin fatigue” being what inspectors consider the most likely culprit (thanks to producermatthew for his great work on this). source (via • follow)
Southwest Airlines has grounded 81 passenger aircraft after an incident aboard a Boeing 737 plane Friday afternoon.
Southwest says the 81 Boeing 737 jets will be examined over the next few days for “aircraft skin fatigue,” which is thought to have caused a hole in the fuselage of a plane bound for Sacramento from San Francisco.
The plane made an emergency landing in Yuma, Arizona. More than 110 passengers were transported to Sacramento from Yuma a short time later.
Passenger Shawna Malvini-Redden describes the scene on-board Southwest Airlines flight 812. When a hole opened up in the roof of the plane, Shawna used her camera phone to post photos to Twitter. The damaged plane landed in Yuma, Arizona en route to Sacramento.
New video: A passenger on-board Southwest Airlines flight 812 filmed what appeared to be a three-foot hole in the roof of the Boeing 737. The plane, en route to Sacramento from Phoenix, landed safely in Yuma, Arizona. A new plane is expected to take the 112 passengers to Sacramento later tonight.
Plane going down. Love you.Text message sent to a Sacramento woman by her husband on-board a troubled Southwest Airlines plane. The Sacramento-bound plane landed safely a few minutes later in Yuma, Arizona. An eyewitness said a loud bang was heard in the cabin, which caused rapid decompression in the plane. A total of 118 passengers were on-board the plane. A separate flight will take them to Sacramento around 8:30pm Friday. (via producermatthew)
» Not a changed man: In explaining his reasoning, the “Red State” director had this to say about the Southwest incident: ”At that moment, I was like, you know what? I’ll lose the weight, but I’m not putting on thinner clothes. Because why? What’s the difference? I’m still the same person I was 65 pounds heavier.” Yep, still a fat dude at heart.
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