Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110402:13:35:00
The skin of the plane, which is made up of panels connected by fasteners and also by rivets. the plane contracts and expands during that cycle and that stresses out the metal skin. this is not the first time a southwest 737 has had a problem with the hole in the skin opening up. in july 2009, southwest flight 2294 from nashville to baltimore made an emergency landing in west virginia after a crack opened up where two sheets of aluminum are open. no one injured there. the most famous case of metal fatigue, in 1988, aloha airlines opened up over hawaii. one attendant was sucked out of the plane ...
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