Southwest Airlines has another frightening midair incident

nypost.com ^ | May 14, 2018 | Chris Perez

[lowbridge]

Flight 861 was traveling from Denver to Dallas on Saturday night — with 100 passengers on board — when the cabin began to lose pressure at roughly 20,000 feet, according to officials.

Oxygen masks were deployed around 9 p.m. local time, just as the plane was arriving in the DFW area.

[the OlLine Rebel]

...in before the SW flackies start their defense...

[dfwgator]

Wanna Get Away?

[cgbg]

They aren’t bad—as sardine cans go... :-(

(Gawd I hate that airline.)

[ConservativeWarrior]

SW may become the first airline to install ejection seats on the flight deck.

[ltc8k6]

The media is just paying attention now to things it ignored before.

http://avherald.com/

[Slyfox]

I like SouthWest. To have a great record for decades until the previous accident says a lot.

[napscoordinator]

You get what you pay for. Terrible airline.

[onedoug]

Who is signing for these systems?

[PSUGOP]

A co-worker told me SW farms out their maintenance to someplace in South America.

Not sure if I believe it but who knows these days.

[Moonman62]

My favorite. I hope the gazelle is OK:

Kish A321 at Kish on May 8th 2018, rejected takeoff due to gazelle strike

[irishjuggler]

It WAS true. They were doing most of their major repairs in El Salvador but supposedly ended that arrangement at the end of 2017.

[neverevergiveup]

I've never heard of many of those airlines. Pretty amazing, but it had one entry about an aborted take-off because of a gazelle strike.

[neverevergiveup]

I missed your post and just posted the same.

[BfloGuy]

This always happens after a major aircraft accident.

The media reports every incident for that airline for months after making it look incompetent or uncaring. The individual stories aren't necessarily false, but the impression given is.

[MagUSNRET]

PING
(You may want to reconsider using this airline ever again!)

[xone]

From the story:“When you’re in the air 20,000 feet above the ground and don’t know what’s going on it’s not uneventful,” explained Eichelberger.

'So quit flying the airplane and tell us what is happening that we won't understand anyway."

[Manuel OKelley]

Yep.

Southwest has the best safety record in the US and probably msot of the world but a couple incidents and OMG!

I fly SW constantly, they don’t lose my bags, are seldom late, and never hassle me about checking firearms.

Can’t say that for ANY other US airline.

[texas booster]

5000+ flights in the US and we are bound to find out flaws the hard way.

Passenger strips and runs up aisle

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/05/15/passenger-strips-naked-on-alaska-airlines-flight-runs-up-aisle-report-says.html

And it happens all over the world, even on Airbus planes.

Sichuan Airlines Pilot Sucked Halfway out Cockpit Window

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-airplane/sichuan-airlines-pilot-was-sucked-halfway-out-of-window-captain-says-idUSKCN1IG0A1

I have personally been on a WN flight that lost air pressure. Great pilots brought it down textbook safe.

[Mom MD]

Yup Southwest is the best of the bunch as far as I’m concerned and often has the lowest prices. Also they only fly 737s not some of the awful puddle jumpers I’ve been stuck on on other airlines