![]() ![]() Southwest will take over AirTran's two daily nonstop departures to Orlando International Airport (MCO) and Tampa Bay International Airport (TPA). Southwest attributes its entrance into the market, beginning today, to the roots planted by its wholly-owned subsidiary AirTran Airways. Key West, a popular tourist destination, becomes the eighth city the airline serves in the state of Florida and the 78 th city added to the airline's vast route map. 4, 2012 / PRNewswire/ - Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is excited to announce that LUV has officially landed at Key West International Airport (EYW), extending the airline's Florida presence to the southernmost point of the country in the Florida Keys. In 2013, regulators approved a new and improved battery system for Boeing 787 Dreamliners after the aircraft had been grounded because the plane’s lithium-ion batteries kept overheating.Southwest Adds 78th City to Route Map, Offering Customers Low Fares to Southernmost Point of the United StatesĭALLAS, Nov. Overheating batteries caused the grounding of Boeing 787 planes The plane had just taken off from LAX and was headed to Brisbane when it was forced to turn back around. A damaged windshield forced an emergency landingĪ Boeing 777 was forced to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport after the windshield cracked in 2015. The exact plane was reported to have had airflow issues to the cockpit twice in the weeks leading up to the incident, but engineers believed the issue had been fixed, the report said. The pilots had to keep the door to the cockpit open and wear oxygen masks in order to safely land the plane. The flight, en route to Seattle, was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing at London’s Heathrow Airport after the pilots reported “headache, nausea, light-headedness, a constant urge to take deep breaths and difficulty maintaining concentration,” according an Air Accident Investigation Branch report. Three pilots of a 2015 British Airways flight got sick after debris, including bubble wrap, insulation materials and wires, blocked airflow to the cockpit on a Boeing 777 plane. British Airways pilots got sick as their cockpit was starved of air Plenty of passengers feared they were under attack after hearing a loud boom, but the plane landed safely and all passengers and crew members were unharmed. The flight, which occurred in 2016, was forced to divert and land in Pensacola, Florida. A jet engine malfunction forced a Southwest plane to divertĪn engine on a Southwest Boeing 737 heading from New Orleans to Orlando malfunctioned midflight and caused major damage to the plane. The plane eventually landed safely in Hawaii on time, the airline told NBC at the time. In 2018, the right engine of a United Boeing 777 lost its cowling - the engine’s removable covering - forcing an emergency landing while en route to Honolulu from San Francisco. A Boeing 777 lost the cowling on its right engine The engine that malfunctioned, a General Electric CFM 56-7, is “a very, very reliable engine,” Gary Kelly, Southwest’s former chief executive, said at the time. Crew members on board reported an engine fire and immediately prepared for an emergency landing. Multiple alarms blared on the Boeing 737-700 just 20 minutes after takeoff, former NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at the time. House investigative report into the two incidents blamed Boeing and the FAA for “repeated and serious failures,” and called the crashes “a horrific culmination of a series of faulty technical assumptions by Boeing’s engineers, a lack of transparency on the part of Boeing’s management, and grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA.” ![]() Cameron Spencer / Getty ImagesĪ 2020 U.S. The nose of a Boeing commercial airliner in Sydney on March 14, 2019. The flight was headed from Addis Ababa en route to Nairobi, Kenya. Not even five months later, another new 737 Max 8 plane operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers on board. Perhaps the most infamous tragedies involving Boeing airplanes were in Indonesia in October 2018 and in Ethiopia in March 2019.Īll 189 passengers and crew flying on a brand-new Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 from Jakarta to Sumatra died after the plane crashed into the Java Sea just 13 minutes after takeoff. No one was injured and the aircraft were not suspended from flying.įederal aviation agency Rosaviatsiya said at the time that Russian airlines operate those types of Boeing 777 planes, which are equipped with General Electric GE90-115B engines.ħ37 Max 8 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia kill 346 people
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