The strange thing about the hole that caused the emergency landing of Southwest's flight 812 on April 1 is that it occurred in a plane too young for that kind of problem. The plane is a Boeing 737-300, it's 15 years old, and Boeing says that model should withstand many more than the roughly 40,000 takeoffs and landings, or flight cycles, that this particular plane had completed.
If you listen closely to the important safety briefing on your next flight, you'll learn that in the unlikely event of a loss of cabin pressurization, oxygen masks will drop from overhead.
CNN's Ted Rowlands reports on the Southwest flight that made an emergency landing because of a hole in the fuselage.
A balmy breeze gently blows across the beach, with the warm, clear water of the Pacific Ocean just a few feet away. It's a place honeymooners and families go to get away from it all. But these days, things aren't so perfect in paradise.
The airline industry did an overall poor job last year according to the Air Quality Rating survey, released Monday
Skybus Airlines announced Friday it is shutting down its passenger flights -- becoming the third airline this week to cease operations.
The abrupt shutdowns of ATA Airlines and Aloha Airlines won't keep travelers off Hawaii's shores altogether, but they could make an already expensive vacation destination even pricier and potentially put the leis and luaus out of reach for many.
CNNMoney: Flight delays worsenupdated: Tue Sep 04 2007 00:46:00
The percentage of flight delays at the nation's largest airlines rose in July compared with a year ago, according to government data released Tuesday.
Airline delays increased sharply to record levels in 2006, according to a published report.
A record number of Americans -- 63.5 million, according to AAA -- are crowding planes, trains, and cars to share the holidays with loved ones.
It may look like a cubist bed frame with suction cups for feet, but ANDI could come in just as handy as its robot cousin R2D2 in Star Wars. Engineers at the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute desig...
THEY CALL IT pencil-whipping: doctoring computer entries, logbooks, and work cards so that vital maintenance and safety repairs seem to have been performed. When the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern D...
Fortune: FLYING HAWAIIANupdated: Mon Oct 09 1989 00:01:00
Though not the media figure his partner Peter Ueberroth is, J. Thomas Talbot, 53, has set himself a Ueberroth-style challenge. He and the former baseball commissioner are plunking down $22 million ...
After 75,000 flights, replace the following: flap track attach bolts, fuselage lap joint rivets . . . Sounds a little like the service manual you get with a new car. But these are among the 150 air...
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