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Southwest Grounds More Planes After Fuselage Tear
ResumeSouthwest Airlines is grounding dozens of flights, as airline workers look for cracks similar to the one that may have caused a fuselage tear in a Boeing 737-300, that prompted an emergency landing near Phoenix on Friday.
A hole tore open in the passenger cabin roof after the plane left Phoenix for Sacramento Friday. None of the 118 people aboard was seriously hurt as the plane made a sudden landing at a military base in Yuma, southwest of Phoenix. So far, inspectors have identified cracks in three more Southwest planes. We'll get the latest from Andy Pasztor of the Wall Street Journal.
This segment aired on April 4, 2011.