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Friday, July 17, 2009

Hole in SW B737 Probed

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators are trying to determine how a foot-wide hole opened in the top of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300, forcing the crew to make an emergency landing in Charleston, WV. The B-737 lost pressure in the passenger cabin about 30 minutes into the flight, but no one was injured on the July 13 Nashville-to-Baltimore flight, which carried 126 passengers and five crewmembers. As a safety precaution, Southwest inspected all 181 of its Boeing 737-300s. Southwest says it is unclear what caused the hole, which ripped open just in front of the vertical tail fin as Flight 2294 cruised at 30,000 feet. Passengers on the B-737 aircraft could see the outside through the 1-foot-by-1-foot hole.
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