Southwest Airlines Hole (Pictures & Video)
Posted Jul 14, 2009 by Lindsay Britney
Southwest Airlines hole is a hole on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 jetliner, 
. The football-size hole (scroll down for pictures) appeared on the top of the fuselage of Flight 2294 jet which was en route from Nashville, Tennessee to Baltimore, Maryland on Monday evening. The sudden open-up 30 minutes into the flight led the Southwest Airlines flight to divert to the Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia for an emergency (and safe) landing. No injuries were caused for a total of 131 people aboard, including five crew.
A Southwest Airlines jet made an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia, on Monday after a football-sized hole in its fuselage caused the cabin to depressurize, an airline spokeswoman said.
There were no injuries aboard the Boeing 737, which was traveling at about 34,000 feet when the problem occurred, Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis told CNN.
The sudden drop in cabin pressure caused the jet’s oxygen masks to deploy. [..]
It landed at 5:10 p.m. after the crew reported a football-sized hole in the middle of the cabin near the top of the aircraft, McInnis said.
Passengers later were flied by a Boeing 747 to Baltimore-Washington International Airport hours later.
Passenger Michael Cunningham sat right below the hole. He was awakened by a loud roar while dozing on the flight.
“You could see the sky through it,” Cunningham told to Today Show. “I could put my arm out of it if I wanted to.” Watch his interview video below:
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Both the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident.
The following pictures are related to Southwest Airlines hole incident:
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