"We will review them service, taking in the next few days," said Whitney Eichinger, a spokeswoman for the Southwest on Saturday. She said they "are the same type of aircraft skin fatigue would looking."
In a press release announcing Southwest, that about 300 flights terminating there on Saturday because the inspections would, and should expect delays of up to two hours to customers.
"The security of our customers and employees is our primary concern," said Mike van de Ven, Southwest's chief operating officer, in a statement. "We work closely with Boeing this proactive inspections and investigation support."
The Southwest was level, a 15-year old Boeing 737-300, in the Friday afternoon at 35,000 feet on the way an explosion heard cruise passengers to Sacramento from Phoenix. The associated press reported that, that a woman described it as "gunshotlike."
The airplane oxygen masks were released and two persons, a passenger and a flight attendant, when the pilot passed out descended, to make an emergency landing on Yuma Marine Corps air station in Arizona.
No one was seriously injured, said Mrs Eichinger, and all 118 passengers decided to continue on to their destinations on Friday aboard a replacement Jet.
Robert L. Sumwalt, Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the tear in the aircraft skin was 6 metres long and 18 inches wide.
Officials who were Federal Aviation Administration and the N.T.S.B. on the scene to investigate, the F.A.A. said in a statement. Manuel Johnson, a special agent at the Federal Bureau of investigation, said there was no reason, suspect terrorism.
Images of the aircraft show that a flap of the aircraft skin close to the overhead luggage compartments back peeled was.
"You totally outside can see," said a passenger, Brenda Reese, the associated press. "If you look at the Panel, you can see the sky."
Southwest Airlines fleet is composed exclusively of Boeing 737 s, and the 79 aircraft the company were grounded all 737-300.
Not the only incident in the skies over the United States was the emergency landing on Friday.
An American Airlines flight from Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.c. to Chicago an emergency landing in Dayton, Ohio, by two flight attendants the captain told them were feel dizzy made. Jim Faulkner, a spokesman for American Airlines, said that it examined whether the aircraft had not properly without pressure. No other aircraft was taken out of service.
And an Atlantic Southeast Airlines one flight from Atlanta to little rock, Ark, emergency landing after the collision with a flock of birds. None of the 48 passengers or three crew members on the regional jet were injured and the aircraft was operating normally when it landed in little rock, said spokeswoman Kate Modolo, an airline.
CNN reported that the aircraft substantial visible damage to his nose and that at least a dead crane at the front was stuck suffered when it landed.
In reference to the Southwest incident James E. Hall, former Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said that the airline had "a good security program", but the company its aircraft hard, planning working flights with very short turnaround. "they their aircraft daily pounds," said Mr. Hall.
He said "The skin of the aircraft as human skin,". "Any kind of puncture is serious."
Two years ago, southwest face a similar episode, when ripped open a hole in an airplane fuselage and forced an emergency landing on a flight to Baltimore from Nashville tied. At the beginning of the year, Southwest was $7.5 million for breach of security by the Federal Aviation Administration fined.
1988 A flight attendant was killed and scores of passengers were injured as Boeing 737 suffered a 20-foot break in the hull of an Aloha Airlines during a flight in Hawaii. The flight, carrying 89 passengers and a crew of five from Hilo, Hawaii, Honolulu, was on when travelling 24,000 meters occurred as the tear.
The pilots sent an emergency message to air traffic controllers and then led the aircraft to a safe landing at the airport on the island of Maui's Kahului. The right engine had from who was run over Commission of dirt from the fuselage, which was been ripped off.
A flight attendant was swept from the level, but second flight attendant, grabbing to passengers it is extended to hold. Sixty passengers were injured.
JAD Mouawad contributed reporting.
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