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Southwest Airlines grounds 81 planes after emergency
Reuters ^
| Sat Apr 2, 2011 10:57am EDT
| David Schwartz
Posted on 04/02/2011 9:16:29 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
(Reuters) - Southwest Airlines grounded 81 aircraft from its Boeing 737 fleet for inspection after a gaping hole in the fuselage forced one of its planes to make emergency landing in Arizona on Friday, the company said on Saturday.
Southwest (LUV.N) and Boeing (BA.N) engineers will inspect the aircraft to try to determine the cause, Southwest said in a statement. Passengers heard a loud noise and suddenly saw a hole about mid-cabin.
Southwest Airlines is working with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration on the ground in Arizona to determine the cause of a sudden drop in cabin pressure on Southwest Flight 812 from Phoenix to Sacramento on Friday, airline officials said.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; airlines; airplanehole; airtravel; aviation; boeing; flight812; southwestairlines; swa
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I've been wanting to post this story for several hours, but was only able to find rumors rather than links to news sites.
I had to excerpt, but the stuff I cut out was rehashed info from previous reports.
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:19:58 AM PDT
by
SteamShovel
("Does the noise in my head bother you?")
To: Paleo Conservative
Help me out, what is “a gaping hole in the fuselage” mean? Sorry, Internet challenged on my BB...how large was this? Was it a “tear”, “rupture”?
To: Paleo Conservative
"...to determine the cause of a sudden drop in cabin pressure..."
Pressure vessel rupture due to fatigue.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:21:20 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paleo Conservative
It was Dick Cheney and Haliburton.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:21:51 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Michael Barnes
According to the news report last night, the hole was about 4-5 feet long and about two feet wide. You could see daylight from the cabin.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:24:18 AM PDT
by
catbertz
To: Paleo Conservative
It should be a riveting investigation.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:25:30 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: catbertz
To: Paleo Conservative
Our son flew with Southwest Airlines to Orlando on a high school class trip early this morning. Having read about the emergency landing, I was mightily relieved when they landed safely about an hour ago.
To: Paleo Conservative
This was on Fox last night (I think it was Fox). I think the hole was in the ceiling of the plane.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:26:44 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Paleo Conservative
Southwest Airlines is working with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration on the ground in Arizona to determine the cause of a sudden drop in cabin pressure
Could it have been the gaping hole in the side of the plane? Just a thought.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:26:50 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Carry_Okie
Worker have resumed injecting seawater into the gap.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:27:05 AM PDT
by
omega4179
(No war for Brotherhood.)
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:28:26 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Michael Barnes
To: catbertz
Yep, I’d say that could be accurately described as a “gaping hole.”
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:33:08 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
To: BuckeyeTexan
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:35:11 AM PDT
by
farlander
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:35:16 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(2 Chron 7:14)
To: Paleo Conservative
determine the cause of a sudden drop in cabin pressure I may be way off base and I am not an engineer but I bet the "gaping hole about mid cabin" was the cause. Sounds like an emergency exit door departed.
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:37:43 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Fly Southwest...
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posted on
04/02/2011 9:38:34 AM PDT
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: blueunicorn6
Are you sure it was’t Bush’s fault?
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