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...Eastern Air Transport. All 110 people aboard that jet perished when the fuselage floor as well as roof peeled back at roughly the same altitude as that of Flight 243. Former top federal safety investigator C.O. ("Chuck") Miller, who studied the 1981 crash, points out that both vintage Boeing 737s were built in the late 1960s, endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles, and operated in the highly corrosive atmosphere of the warm salt air over the Pacific Ocean. "The only difference this time is that . the fuselage floor held," Miller said. "But the fuselage skin on the Aloha flight...
Last October the Government ordered a close inspection of the upper-fuselage skin on all vintage Boeing 737s because the metal had begun to crack on several of these aircraft. Although such a connection is speculative at the moment, Aloha Airlines has temporarily grounded its other three high-time 737s...
...leasing industry has flourished in part because the deregulation of airlines in the U.S. spawned many fledgling carriers that could ill afford to buy new aircraft. Tempe, Ariz.-based America West got off the ground by leasing ten Boeing 737s -- its entire fleet. Says America West President Michael Conway: "Without leasing, we would have had to raise a lot more money...
...some cases, airlines lease planes to other carriers, especially when encountering financial turbulence. Since it announced plans to reorganize last month, People Express has repainted and leased eight of its 737s. Last week Eastern Air Lines canceled its Miami-to-London route and said it may lease the DC-10 that has been idled...
...engines, grounding about 10% of the country's passenger fleet and causing flight delays of up to seven hours at the beginning of last week. British Airways announced that it had found engine problems similar to the one in the Manchester accident in four of its twelve Boeing 737s, but the airline's officials angrily denied an FAA allegation that the engine cracks were caused by operating the motors at excessively high temperatures. Still, many passengers are nervous. "People are making requests to sit near emergency exits, and there seems to be more than the normal level of cancellations," said...