Southwest Airlines Flight 2294 lands in West Virginia with football-sized hole in fuselage

Jul 14th, 2009 - NY Daily News

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A football sized hole opened up in the passenger cabin of a Southwest jet over West Virginia, triggering an emergency landing - and immediate inspections of some 200 planes.

Travelers aboard the Boeing 737 on Monday could see straight through the square-foot hole, which formed on the aircraft's ceiling.

The cabin lost pressure, but no one was hurt on the Nashville to Baltimore flight carrying 126 passengers and five crew members.

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