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COMMENTS: There’s a Hole in the Cabin
"Four months ago Southwest Airlines was fined $7.5m for failing to inspect its 737 fleet for cracks in 2007," NBC's Tom Costello reminded us, when the cabin of Flight 2294 peeled open in mid-flight en route to Baltimore from Nashville. "Likely culprits include metal fatigue, corrosion, a scratch, or damage to the fuselage during maintenance," suggested ABC's Lisa Stark. "Just last year Southwest found cracks in half a dozen of its 737s," CBS' Nancy Cordes pointed out. The 15-year-old Boeing 737--"old enough to be considered an aging aircraft," as ABC's Stark put it--landed in West Virginia after the cabin depressurized and oxygen masks dropped. All 126 passengers on board are safe.
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