Southwest Grounds 79 Planes After Emergency
April 02, 2011 at 23:40 PM EDT
Southwest Airlines (LUV) said it was grounding 79 of its older Boeing 737-300 airplanes for possible problems with their outer skins, after a roughly three-foot hole between the top of the plane’s fuselage and the upper supports for several passenger windows, forced an emergency landing. Flight 812, with 118 passengers and five Phoenix-based crew, was en [...]