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Nashville Flight Makes Emergency Landing


Posted on Jul 14, 2009

A commercial airline flight from Nashville, TN was forced to make an emergency landing after the cabin suddenly depressurized, deploying cabin oxygen masks.  The Southwest Airlines, Boeing 737 was in route from Nashville to Baltimore and made the emergency landing in Charleston, WV after a football-sized hole formed in the rear of the fuselage forward of the vertical stabilizer.  There were no injuries.

The NTSB and the FAA are investigating the cause of the incident.  

The damaged jet will remain on the ground in West Virginia until federal inspectors can finish their examination.  In addition to this inspection, all 181 of Southwest's 737-300s -- about a third of the airline's fleet -- will be inspected overnight due to the emergency landing after departing Nashville.  

This incident brings us to mind of the  1988 Aloha Airlines flight in Hawaii, where another Boeing 737's top fuselage structure failed.  That failure was determined to be caused by unstable crack propagation due to improper maintenance on a bonded area of the skin of the fuselage.  In the Aloha Air incident, a passenger noticed the crack when boarding but failed to report it to the crew.  

If a family member or other loved one has been the victim of an aviation disaster, you need an experienced aviation attorney.  Please call or click to speak directly with B. Keith Williams.    

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