The national transportation safety board has concluded that poor manufacturing led to the metal fatigue and subsequent roof hole that opened up on a southwest airlines airplane in 2011.
Southwest airlines accident roof.
Catastrophic engine failure on a southwest airlines flight from new york to dallas killed a mother of two and forced an emergency landing april 17 2018 the first fatal incident in us commercial.
A window was broken and a 43 year old passenger died.
Southwest airlines flight 1248 wn1248 swa1248 was a scheduled passenger flight from baltimore maryland to chicago illinois to salt lake city utah and then to las vegas nevada on december 8 2005 the airplane slid off a runway at chicago midway while landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic killing a six year old boy.
Aah243 was a scheduled aloha airlines flight between hilo and honolulu in hawaii.
Southwest airlines flight 1380 suffered an engine explosion after a fan blade broke apart.
Southwest airlines flight 812 was a boeing 737 300 passenger jet that on april 1 2011 suffered rapid depressurization while cruising at 34 000 ft 10 000 m near yuma arizona leading to an emergency landing at yuma international airport.
Two of the 123 people on board suffered minor injuries.
Southwest airlines flight 1380 was a boeing 737 7h4 that experienced a failure in the left cfm56 7b engine after departing from new york laguardia airport en route to dallas love field on april 17 2018.
Though southwest airlines markets itself as a young modern airline the average age of its aircraft 11 1 2 years for its all 737 fleet ranks in the middle of the pack among major u s.
Aloha airlines flight 243 iata.