Friday, April 1, 2011, marked a scary day for the 118 passengers on Southwest airlines flight 812 leaving Phoenix. Not even 20 minutes into the flight, a massive five foot hole opened in the cabin. The pilot made an emergency landing and everyone walked away unharmed. However, with the incident came more inspections for Southwest, which turned up many of the same kind of crack that caused the hole in the first place. With these defects being found, the question is: Should Southwest airlines postpone all flights until they can get this straightened out? And also, should this extend to all airlines?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/government-order-emergency-inspections-737-jets-southwest-airlines/story?id=13300089
I think Southwest needs to cancel all flights until every plane is checked. This could have happened way higher in the air, and that would have caused a lot more problems. I obviously do not think every airline should be shut down, but I do think that every airline needs to check every plane because I think a lot of airlines probably have the same kind of crack.
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