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4/2/2011, 03:47 PM
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The last football size hole in the Fuselage.....
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Good CNN Video of the inflight cell phone that got pics of the ceiling....
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/02/arizona.flight.diverted/?hpt=T2
Holed plane makes emergency landing
(UKPA) – 16 hours ago
Passengers on a US flight which made an emergency landing at a military base after a sudden drop in cabin pressure took dramatic pictures of a hole in the aircraft.
Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Los Angeles, said the cause of the decompression was not immediately known.
He said the pilot of the Southwest Airlines plane "made a rapid, controlled descent from 36,000 feet to 11,000 feet after the incident occurred".
Some passengers aboard the flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to Sacramento, California, said a hole in the cabin caused a rapid descent.
"It dropped pretty quick," said Brenda Reese, who provided mobile phone photographs of the cabin damage in the Boeing 737. The pictures show a panel hanging open in a section above the plane's middle aisle, with a hole of about six feet long.
""The panel's not completely off. It's like ripped down, but you can see completely outside. When you look up through the panel, you can see the sky." Ms Reese said by telephone.
Ms Reese said the plane had just left Phoenix Sky Harbour International Airport when she awoke after hearing a "gunshot-like sound" in the cabin and oxygen masks dropped for passengers and flight attendants.
Dallas, Texas-based Southwest said there were no injuries among the 118 people aboard, but Ms Reese said "there were some people that were passing out because they weren't getting the oxygen". She said one flight attendant's oxygen did not work and that he fell and suffered a bloody nose.
Authorities said the plane landed safely at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station/International Airport at 4.07pm local time on Friday, 150 miles south west of Phoenix and about 40 minutes after take-off from Sky Harbour.
The National Transportation Safety Board later said an "in-flight fuselage rupture" forced the plane to make the emergency landing.
LINK for above Story (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gpr-NtbgF0_ol2OfX4hxQXDLuYgg?docId=N035701130171634827 0A)
79 flights cancelled today....OUCH!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/southwest-airlines-passengers-anxiously-await-word-of-cancellations-at-lax.html
As investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration sought to determine how a hole tore open in the fuselage of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, anxious passengers at Los Angeles International Airport awaited word Saturday on whether they would be caught up in the cancellation of 300 flights nationwide.
As of noon PDT, Southwest had canceled 13 of about 95 flights scheduled at LAX, including a 2:15 p.m. flight to San Francisco; a 4:40 p.m. departure to Phoenix and then Omaha; and a 5:20 p.m. flight to San Jose.
Among the 100 prospective Southwest travelers who waited nervously for news on cancellations was Rita Aguilar-Cayo, 58. “I just arrived on a national flight from Tahiti, and now I’m going home and I really, really want to get there,” Cayo said. “But I’m starting to feel pretty insecure.”
Trotting up to the ticket line, Cayo said she did not have time to check the status of her flight on the electronic boards. While standing in line Cayo, heard about the incident and the canceled flights. However, she learned that she was among the lucky Saturday. Her 12:45 p.m. flight to San Jose was scheduled to depart on time.
Standing behind Cayo was a party of 19 Christian missionaries of all ages, from Victory Christian Academy, of Valparaiso, Ind. The group had been working in Echo Park over the last year.
A spokeswoman for the group, Deanna Abner, 48, had not heard of Friday’s troubled flight until shortly after getting in line to check her bags. She shrugged her shoulders after getting details. “God is in control. We don’t’ worry about it.” She paused. “The worst that can happen is that we all go to heaven.”
Brandy King, spokeswoman for Southwest Airlines, said the inspections of 79 of its Boeing 737 jets resulted in the cancellation of 300 flights system wide. She said the company was trying to accommodate travelers who were affected by the cancellation of their flights. King said there was no timeline as to when inspectors would complete examinations of the planes, but said travelers would be updated on the situation.
LINK for above Story (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/southwest-airlines-passengers-anxiously-await-word-of-cancellations-at-lax.html)
Rough weekend for them.....
The last football size hole in the Fuselage.....
http://blog.flightstory.net/wp-content/uploads/southwest-airlines-2294-hole-fuselage-circle.jpg
Good CNN Video of the inflight cell phone that got pics of the ceiling....
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/02/arizona.flight.diverted/?hpt=T2
Holed plane makes emergency landing
(UKPA) – 16 hours ago
Passengers on a US flight which made an emergency landing at a military base after a sudden drop in cabin pressure took dramatic pictures of a hole in the aircraft.
Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman in Los Angeles, said the cause of the decompression was not immediately known.
He said the pilot of the Southwest Airlines plane "made a rapid, controlled descent from 36,000 feet to 11,000 feet after the incident occurred".
Some passengers aboard the flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to Sacramento, California, said a hole in the cabin caused a rapid descent.
"It dropped pretty quick," said Brenda Reese, who provided mobile phone photographs of the cabin damage in the Boeing 737. The pictures show a panel hanging open in a section above the plane's middle aisle, with a hole of about six feet long.
""The panel's not completely off. It's like ripped down, but you can see completely outside. When you look up through the panel, you can see the sky." Ms Reese said by telephone.
Ms Reese said the plane had just left Phoenix Sky Harbour International Airport when she awoke after hearing a "gunshot-like sound" in the cabin and oxygen masks dropped for passengers and flight attendants.
Dallas, Texas-based Southwest said there were no injuries among the 118 people aboard, but Ms Reese said "there were some people that were passing out because they weren't getting the oxygen". She said one flight attendant's oxygen did not work and that he fell and suffered a bloody nose.
Authorities said the plane landed safely at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station/International Airport at 4.07pm local time on Friday, 150 miles south west of Phoenix and about 40 minutes after take-off from Sky Harbour.
The National Transportation Safety Board later said an "in-flight fuselage rupture" forced the plane to make the emergency landing.
LINK for above Story (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gpr-NtbgF0_ol2OfX4hxQXDLuYgg?docId=N035701130171634827 0A)
79 flights cancelled today....OUCH!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/southwest-airlines-passengers-anxiously-await-word-of-cancellations-at-lax.html
As investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration sought to determine how a hole tore open in the fuselage of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, anxious passengers at Los Angeles International Airport awaited word Saturday on whether they would be caught up in the cancellation of 300 flights nationwide.
As of noon PDT, Southwest had canceled 13 of about 95 flights scheduled at LAX, including a 2:15 p.m. flight to San Francisco; a 4:40 p.m. departure to Phoenix and then Omaha; and a 5:20 p.m. flight to San Jose.
Among the 100 prospective Southwest travelers who waited nervously for news on cancellations was Rita Aguilar-Cayo, 58. “I just arrived on a national flight from Tahiti, and now I’m going home and I really, really want to get there,” Cayo said. “But I’m starting to feel pretty insecure.”
Trotting up to the ticket line, Cayo said she did not have time to check the status of her flight on the electronic boards. While standing in line Cayo, heard about the incident and the canceled flights. However, she learned that she was among the lucky Saturday. Her 12:45 p.m. flight to San Jose was scheduled to depart on time.
Standing behind Cayo was a party of 19 Christian missionaries of all ages, from Victory Christian Academy, of Valparaiso, Ind. The group had been working in Echo Park over the last year.
A spokeswoman for the group, Deanna Abner, 48, had not heard of Friday’s troubled flight until shortly after getting in line to check her bags. She shrugged her shoulders after getting details. “God is in control. We don’t’ worry about it.” She paused. “The worst that can happen is that we all go to heaven.”
Brandy King, spokeswoman for Southwest Airlines, said the inspections of 79 of its Boeing 737 jets resulted in the cancellation of 300 flights system wide. She said the company was trying to accommodate travelers who were affected by the cancellation of their flights. King said there was no timeline as to when inspectors would complete examinations of the planes, but said travelers would be updated on the situation.
LINK for above Story (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/southwest-airlines-passengers-anxiously-await-word-of-cancellations-at-lax.html)
Rough weekend for them.....