Gekko

Southwest Airlines grounded 41 planes overnight — about 8 percent of its fleet — in the wake of its recent admission that it had missed required inspections of some planes for structural cracks. ...

The $10.2 million penalty is the largest the FAA has ever imposed on a carrier.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1

Gekko

On March 12, 2008, Southwest Airlines was forced to ground 44 planes to check if they needed further inspection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines

Seamus

UHh Gekko, are you a disgruntled former SWA employee or something?

Dukey

Actually, I have flown on a lot of those planes and there weren't any problems.

Now, if we could just get somebody to do something about our overworked, overburdened, understaffed, and poorly equipped flight control system..any suggestions, Gekko?

Perhaps we could start with that "seed" money from SouthBEST

Gekko

From today's Wall Street Journal:

"Southwest Airlines Co. had to do repairs on four of the 38 planes it grounded Wednesday for maintenance reinspections, another sign of safety record-keeping problems at the Dallas low-fare carrier."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1205...googlenews_wsj

joethekay

Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life down here.

Gekko

Four grounded planes had fuselage cracks.

I wonder if the FAA will impose yet another penalty?

The $10.2 million penalty against SW was the largest the FAA has ever imposed on a carrier.