News Holed Southwest Airlines flight makes emergency landing

[xr2ravenstarflyer]

Glad no one suffered from hypoxia. Looks like the fuselage was in bad shape. A ground inspection with the appropriate tools could have avoided that.

my ravenstar crew suffered from hypoxia all the time :lol:

 

[statisticsnerd]

my ravenstar crew suffered from hypoxia all the time

I remember when I used FS Passengers I would do "dives of death" in 737s and listen to the passengers scream. Then I would start with the barrel rolls and flying upside down until the co-pilot would start yelling "The pilot is obviously drunk, stupid, or both." :lol:

 

[JEL]

Track log:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA812/history/20110401/2225Z/KPHX/KNYL/tracklog

So they weren't level at cruising-altitude apparently, at the time of the on-set of the incident, but climbing.

 

[Cairan]

Looking at the altitude profile, I'd say it might just be a bump of the control stick or the AP disconnecting for whatever reason due to the decompression event. Then a minute later they might have re-engaged it per procedures to conduct the emergency descent. My uneducated guess ;P

EDIT:

They changed the graph a little from what I saw yesterday. The bump I was speaking of is no longer there... Data processing must have been done or whatever... Strange. :/

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Some more news on this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12954335

Small, sub-surface cracks have been found in three more Southwest Airlines planes like those thought to have caused another to develop a hole in its cabin roof mid-flight, officials say.

 

[Zachstar]

Not good for the airlines already suffering from extreme fuel prices. Then again they have not helped themselves with stupid new charges that eroded what loyalty they had left.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

Oh wow! So that sub species does exist, after all. First ever Anorak.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

FAA to issue directive demanding inspections of older 737s

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/05/texas.southwest.planes/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

Looks like this could get ugly.