Steve
En-Route
About a 3 foot opening...
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/arizona.flight.diverted/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/01/arizona.flight.diverted/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
"A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday with what passengers described as a 3-foot hole in the fuselage of the Boeing 737."
Too bad it's not actually a military base. Is it that hard to get the first paragraph right at least?
"A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday with what passengers described as a 3-foot hole in the fuselage of the Boeing 737."
Too bad it's not actually a military base. Is it that hard to get the first paragraph right at least?
"A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday with what passengers described as a 3-foot hole in the fuselage of the Boeing 737."
Too bad it's not actually a military base. Is it that hard to get the first paragraph right at least?
It is dual use - they at least got it 'half' right!
It's dual-use - been there. To call it strictly a military base is incorrect.
Southwest Flight 812: Restoring my faith in humanity
It's been less than 18 hours since Southwest Flight 812 made an emergency landing in Yuma, Arizona with yours truly aboard.
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Several news outlets have asked me to confirm what other passengers have described as "pandemonium." In regard to physical stimuli and noise? Sure, that word works. In terms of the behavior of people? Not a chance.
What struck me, what I found completely remarkable was the extent to which people remained calm during the ordeal and stayed congenial throughout the landing, waiting, transfer and flight to Sacramento.
http://thebluestmuse.blogspot.com/2011/04/southwest-flight-812-restoring-my-faith.html
"We do not know the cause of the decompression," said Ian Gregor of the FAA.
I'll go out on a limb and say it was because of the big-a** hole.
We had a BFH once, below the waterline. It was a jagged rip 40 feet long, and at its widest, 20 feet. BFH!
Depressurization was a catastrophe for Payne Stewart.I think if one of us had been aboard we might have had a wholly different take on it - only because for example, we would know that depressurization is not a catastrophe.
Depressurization was a catastrophe for Payne Stewart.
-- P
What did you hit?
Nothing!
The USS Bolivar SSBN 641 hit us!
SSBN-641 was USS Simon Bolivar, USS Bolivar was decommissioned in 1946.
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - Inspectors have found small, subsurface cracks in two more Southwest planes that are similar to the cracks that caused a jetliner to lose pressure and make a harrowing emergency landing in Arizona, the airline said in a statement Sunday.
Nothing!
The USS Bolivar SSBN 641 hit us!
Google BETELGEUSE BOLIVAR for more info....
-Skip
"A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely at a military base in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday with what passengers described as a 3-foot hole in the fuselage of the Boeing 737."
Too bad it's not actually a military base. Is it that hard to get the first paragraph right at least?
When my father was based there after being drafted in the early 60's it was called Yuma Proving Grounds (if my memory is correct).
It still is, but that's a different installation.
When my father was based there after being drafted in the early 60's it was called Yuma Proving Grounds (if my memory is correct).
Ah, didn't realize there were at least 2 in Yuma. Thanks.
Funny, but here's a question - what do you do with the plane? Send folks down to NYL and fix it there, or do you get a ferry permit and fly it back to PHX or some other maintenance facility?Scuttlebutt is... that SWA is gonna scrap the plane..
The mechanics can repair the sheet metal, but they cant seem to get the brown stains out of the cabin seats :
Here's the track:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SWA812/history/20110401/2225Z/KPHX/KSMF
Anybody in Blythe find a chunk of fuselage???