BREAKING: Southwest Airlines jet lands with fuselage hole

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The problem with the Aloha aircraft was that it had made over 89,000 cycles, the second most of any aircraft flying at that time. The pure number of take offs and landings stressed the airframe beyond its durability. Passengers stated after the fatal flight that when boarding, they noticed that the upper fuselage had minor peeling along the area just aft of the main cabin door. Southwest's aircraft make enough cycles due to lots of shorter flights, maybe this is what happened again. Or maybe Southwest's mechanics are starting to behave like the ones I worked with at Continental.

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