- An engine failure on a Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) last month released debris that tore a 5"x16" hole in the plane before it made a safe emergency landing in Pensacola, Fla., crash investigators at the NTSB said today.
- In an update to its probe of the Boeing (NYSE:BA) 737's rare engine failure, the U.S. agency said a fan blade separated from the engine and was not recovered, except for the base of the blade that was still attached to the aircraft; the investigation update still has not solved the precise cause of the "uncontained" engine failure.
- The Aug. 27 flight, bound from New Orleans to Orlando with 99 passengers and five crew members aboard, lost cabin pressure and safely diverted to Pensacola; there were no injuries.
- LUV and GE, which produced the engine with Safran in a CFM International joint venture, says they are working closely with the NTSB on the probe.