SWA IFE into KNYL for Rapid D and hole in fuselage ceiling

Southwest fuselage rupture, diversion.

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NTSB ADVISORY
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National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, DC 20594

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2011

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NTSB LAUNCHING TEAM TO INVESTIGATE AIRLINER FUSELAGE RUPTURE

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Washington, D.C. - The National Transportation Safety Board is launching a Go Team to investigate an in-flight fuselage rupture that occurred this evening on a Southwest Airline Boeing 737 aircraft (N632SW). The damaged airplane diverted and landed safely in Yuma, Arizona.
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Keeping them on the plane seems like a bad idea to me. 100 plus degrees and no A/C. Seems like the Marines could have shuttled them to a building or someplace else on the field.
 
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Be interesting to see what comes of the investigation on this one, didn't they recently have another airplane try to shed a piece of the cieling?
 
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Bandit_Driver said:
Keeping them on the plane seems like a bad idea to me. 100 plus degrees and no A/C. Seems like the Marines could have shuttled them to a building or someplace else on the field.
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Isn't Yuma dual use with a passenger terminal and regularly schedule air carrier service?
 
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boondr said:
Isn't Yuma dual use with a passenger terminal and regularly schedule air carrier service?
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Yes, regional service. But USMC handles all ARFF services for both military and civil as well as all ATC services.
 
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MikeD said:
Yes, regional service. But USMC handles all ARFF services for both military and civil.
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Understood but I was talking in regards to the handling of the passengers, you'd think they would have been allowed to exit to the terminal.
 
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boondr said:
Understood but I was talking in regards to the handling of the passengers, you'd think they would have been allowed to exit to the terminal.
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I think the bird was likely towed to the MC ramp, probably to be hangared and secured.
 
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I do idly wonder if anyone seeing the jet on approach to NYL, was thinking "cool! SWA serves Yuma now!" :)
 
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I've seen them come into Miramar as well....I just assumed they were contract flights bringing Marines back home from deployment. We did have a Delta jet come in for an IFE while my buddy was wing GDO, that ended up being pretty exciting for him. Apparently they didn't know how to listen to the ATIS because he got like 10 phone calls from their ops dept trying to confirm the status of the short field gear on 24R.....
 
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Roger said:
Be interesting to see what comes of the investigation on this one, didn't they recently have another airplane try to shed a piece of the cieling?
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Yes, punched out a hole by the rudder. IIRC, they were also fined for not completing NDT on some fuselages. All of which were in about the last 12 mos.
 
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MikeD said:
I do idly wonder if anyone seeing the jet on approach to NYL, was thinking "cool! SWA serves Yuma now!" :)
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If I lived in Yuma, I'd be looking for a getaway too ;)
 
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Polar742 said:
Yes, punched out a hole by the rudder. IIRC, they were also fined for not completing NDT on some fuselages. All of which were in about the last 12 mos.
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Be very, very interesting to see if the 3 are related (2 blowouts and missed NDT inspections).
 
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300 flights that the -300's fly... interesting. If it had been flight 810, that would have been creepy...
 
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MikeD said:
I do idly wonder if anyone seeing the jet on approach to NYL, was thinking "cool! SWA serves Yuma now!" :)
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I used to see their airplanes on the ramp over there all the time back in the day. I'm pretty sure they just like everyone else have several charters set up with the military.

On a slightly different note... Does anyone know if sun western is still open in Yuma?
 
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I sure some A & P will correct me on the terms. Didn't Boeing use some Chemical Milling process to build the skin panels out of solid pieces of Aluminum vs a more traditional method of riveting supports onto the panel and then attaching them to the aircraft.
 
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[video=youtube;VELFd_mAClg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VELFd_mAClg[/video]
 
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