Saturday, April 2, 2011

Southwest Airlines

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-04-02/us/southwest.faa.inspection_1_faa-inspectors-faa-managers-southwest-planes?_s=PM:US April 2008 Southwest Airlines is in trouble for cutting corners on inspections and repairs. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29469571/ns/travel-news/ March 2009 Southwest Airlines is fined 7.2 million dollars for cutting corners on maintenance. “The airline was fined for flying 46 airplanes on 59,791 flights without performing mandatory inspections for fuselage cracks. The planes, Boeing 737s, carried an estimated 145,000 passengers”. http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/02/arizona.flight.diverted/index.html?hpt=C1 Today Southwest grounds 81 planes because a 3 foot hole blew open in mid flight forcing an emergency landing. "Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the "depressurization event" Why don’t they just read my first two links and they will know why todays event happened.

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