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COMMENTS: Skin Inspection
The other aging airplanes to make news belonged to Southwest Airlines. In the aftermath of whistleblowers' expose of what ABC's Mike von Fremd (embargoed link) called a "relaxed culture" of maintenance that led to a $10m FAA fine, 44 of Southwest's fleet of 520 Boeing 737s were grounded for the day for an inspection for metal fatigue in their outer skin. The inspection caused the cancelation of 4% of Southwest's schedule, NBC's Tom Costello calculated, this for an airline "that prides itself on ontime arrivals," as von Fremd put it.
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