Flight 812 News Today

A detached engine cowling struck the wing flap of the aircraft during takeoff from Denver International Airport. No one was hurt.

A Southwest Airlines flight suffered a major mechanical failure, causing the Boeing passenger plane's engine to spew flames and smoke in midair.

Dramatically. any piece of metal, the minute you take that airplane off, the first or second flight it can develop cracks. its machinery and thats why they inspect it. megyn: the news is up to this point, only visual inspections were required. >> this has happened twice to southwest in the last two years. prior to that, not at all. we can go back to 1988 where it happened to an older airplane. megyn: where the flight attendant was sucked out and died. >> that was a much older plane. this is how ...

The f.a.a. wont tell us theyre requiring other airlines to check. david,ould you fly southwest again? >> i had to fly yesterday to come from to phoenix on southwest, so, the answer is yes. megyn: were you nervous? >> more than i thought i would be. as they were closing the bins, it gave me a jolt when anything resembling a popping noise. megyn: did you get your double scotch? >> i picked a different row and had another couple sit next to me and the guy said he ordered a double scotchwith coupons...

The heroes that stopped the hijackers from crashing their jet into the intended target. new details on the southwest airlines scare. were hearing from passengers that were on board this flight. take a look at this picture, taken by my next guest. the incident raising new concerns about our nations aging air fleet as well as companies about whether other airlines are following prosecutors. david mathias was a passenger on the flight and michael boyd, aviation expert. gentlemen, thank you. david, ...

So what of the reversal. the attorney general not giving a clear answer on that specific point. joining me right now is the father of todd beamer. one of the heros to attacked the hijackers on flight 93. and tim brown, one of the firefighters at ground zero on that fateful day. gentlemen, thank you so as much for being here. i cant imagine what it was like for you listening to that. david, let me ask you for your reaction. >> this is another day after 9/11. and of course the pain we all feel bas...

Earlier flight where a herd. cattle was hit on the highway, delaying your trip to the airport. you wind up on this plane. 18 1/2 minutes into the journey, what happened? >> it was quite a day. the reason i ordered that double scotch is because i was four hours delayed on the interstate. i just settled in. i was doing some research for a baseball fantasy draft. it was a really loud pop straight above my head, followed by a loud wind rushing, sucking noise. and it happens so quickly, you dont know...

David beamer, father of todd beamer, one of the heroes of flight 93 who died trying to stop these hijackers before they could crash that plane into its intended target. instead, the heroes brought it down in a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. thats in the 2:00 hour. were also getting troubling reports that al-qaeda just got its hands on some missiles that can take down airplanes. a senior algerian security official said that he has evidence that al-qaeda got its hands on the missiles in libya...

Inspect them after a hole tore through the roof of flight 812 out of phoenix. the planes inspections for southwest to cancel 300 flights yesterday. while frustrating, most passengers found it hard to argue with that decision. >> on one side, im really ready to go. on the other side, id rather they get all the planes fixed first. i dont want to go out there in a plane thats going to have a hole in the top of it. >> probably in a month ill forget about it and book with southwest again like most am...

Process what just happened, then oxygen masks come down. >> not everyone was getting their mask on. some were having problems some people were passing out. it was not good. >> reporter: flight 812 had just reached cruising altitude after departing phoenix bound for sacramento, when suddenly, that large section of the aircraft skin ripped open, right over the passengers heads. with the plane losing oxygen, the pilot quickly descended from 3,400 feet down to 11,000, then made an emergency landing ...