DALLAS (AP) — A federal review finds that an unanticipated fatigue crack caused a foot-long hole in a Southwest Airlines jet, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Charleston, W.Va.
KTVT-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday cited information from the National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the July 2009 incident in which a hole opened atop the fuselage at the rear of the jet.
The Boeing 737 lost pressure in the cabin, but nobody was hurt in the Nashville-to-Baltimore flight with 131 people on board. KTVT reports that NTSB says a nearly 14-inch-long fatigue crack was then discovered.
Dallas-based Southwest did not immediately return a message Thursday from The Associated Press for comment.
