Southwest canceled dozens of flights to inspect engines for exploding fan blades after fatal flight (LUV)

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• Southwest Airlines canceled roughly 40 flights on Sunday as its planes' engines are inspected using ultrasonic technology.
• The inspections are a result of the failure of a CFM56-7B engine on board Southwest Flight 1380 last Tuesday which resulted in the death of a passenger.
• Southwest Airlines expects to complete inspections on its entire fleet within the next 30 days.

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Southwest Airlines canceled about 40 flights on Sunday to free up aircraft for enhanced engine inspections after one of its jets suffered a catastrophic failure that killed a passenger last week.

The cancellations account for roughly 1% of the 4,000 flights scheduled for Sunday, Southwest said in a statement.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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