US airlines inspect plane
Published:Tuesday | July 14, 2009 | 5:18 PM
The US carrier Southwest Airlines has inspected about 200 planes after a hole opened up in the passenger cabin during a flight, forcing an emergency landing.
The one-foot-square hole is said to have appeared as the Boeing 737 was flying from Nashville to Baltimore yesterday.
No one was injured during the incident.
The plane, with 131 passengers and crews on board, made the emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia.
Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis said no similar problems were identified on other Boeing 737-300 jets across the country.