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USA: structural break forced an Alaska Airlines' airplane to go back to the departure airport

Seattle, USA - Regularly landed with a hole in its fuselage

Fear aboard an Alaska Airlines’ flight in the United States yesterday. An MD-80 aircraft of this carrier which took off from Seattle Airport bound for Burbank (Los Angeles), experienced a delicate technical structural problem which forced Captain to go back, after around twenty minutes from departure, towards the air station from which it had left. The problem regarded the sudden creation of a hole i...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 133907
Rome, Italy, 12/29/2005 17:33
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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