CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Southwest Airlines Co. inspected about 200 planes overnight after a football-sized hole opened up in the passenger cabin of a jet in flight, forcing an emergency landing in West Virginia.Travelers on the Boeing 737 aircraft could see through the 1-foot-by-1-foot hole that appeared during the flight Monday. The cabin lost pressure, but no one was injured on the Nashville-to-Baltimore flight with 126 passengers and five crew members on board.
Note that the hole, while very close to the tail, did NOT cause the tail to go flying off like a similar problem on an Airbus probably would have.
We still build the best planes, hands down.
We've flown several times on some South American built jet that's been nice as all get out.
Didn't crash either.
That's probably the Embraer line of planes from Brazil.