The Boeing 737 is a workhorse of international aviation. And the accident in which the roof of the Southwest Airlines jet ripped open at 34,000 feet made a thorough review of hundreds of the old model 737 s around the world who may be also vulnerable because of tiny stress fracturesdifficult to find in the aluminum skin.
The aircraft will now be subject to repeated reviews the problem revealed by the crack of fuselage on the flight from the Southwest resonates through fleet 737 in the world for years to come.
Many of their owners are now giving the aircraft a more thorough after which arrived April 1 in Arizona when a section 5 feet of the torn fuselage and pilots forced to make an emergency on a landing base desert military. Passenger dizziness were beaten in the cabin and had to quickly overhead oxygen masks as drivers made a rapid descent.
The incident has airlines and Governments around the world to take rapid action.
The Governments of the Japan, Indonesia, in Korea in the South and others ordered airlines to inspections of beef. Scandinavian airline SAS performs similar checks on some of its 737 s. Qantas Airlines in Australia is verification of four of its aircraft and Air New Zealand is seeking 15. Airlines said that inspections were disturbed not air transport.
Southwest and Continental Airlines have the most aircraft on the list of s 737 - 300, 737-400 and 737-500 prone to failures of fuselage, but a large number of aircraft is held by foreign carriers. UTAir in Russia, Garuda Airlines in Indonesia, Air New Zealand and three major carriers in China are among the biggest. Alaska Airlines has 17.
Southwest ends inspect all its aircraft affected by Tuesday. They found five which had cracks in the same lap joint which tore open during the flight of the last week and worked with Boeing to make repairs. Alaska Airlines goes a step beyond a directive from the Federal Aviation Administration this week ordered inspections when the aircraft reaches a 30 000 takeoffs and landings; the airline will inspect all its aircraft in the coming weeks.
"We are not required to inspect the right now, but we thought that it was the prudent thing to do and to help the industry to determine the interval appropriate," spokesman Paul McElroy said.
There are approximately 6 000 737 s in operation around the world, and an FAA Tuesday Emergency Ordinance covers only 579 who have the type of "lap joint", which has not during the flight of the last week. Lap joints are used in many places on the fuselage of the aircraft and get their name because it is the place where skin of overlap aircraft aluminum and is secured with rivets. The order of la FAA emphasizes design joint Boeing made aircraft between 1993 and 2000.
Experts say that all aircraft around the world will be covered by the order of the FAA due to international agreements between the regulation of civil aviation on a global scale. Many of inspection orders issued by foreign Governments mirror one issued by the FAA.
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