Southwest Airlines responds to 'unsafe' planes allegation {Gadling}

Mar 6th 2008 3:04PM After reading the explanation from Southwest, it is obvious that this is just another sensationalized report of a non-issue. Southwest was the one who first realized and reported the missed inspections. The FAA didn't even realize they were missed until notified. There is no report of critical problems being found when the inspections were conducted. So the whole point of this article should have been a lack of record keeping and efficiency on the part of the FAA, and a commendation to Southwest for notifying the FAA and getting it done.
Typical news practices, trying to blow something out of proportion for ratings.