So far looks like little to any impacts on the OKC market. Some flights today are running about 2 hours behind, but nothing major. Probably thanks to it being a weekend. Depending on how fast they get the fleet back in the air, early week travel will probably see some impacts. For those unaware, Southwest flight 812 from Sacramento to Phoenix suffered a failure of the fuselage skin in flight. Roughly a 3 to 4 foot section tore away exposing the interior cabin to the outside. The aircraft rapidly lost pressurization and depleted the cabin of oxygen.

Captain took the plane down in a very rapid and steep descent from 36,000 ft to 10,900 feet in 3 minutes (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S.../KNYL/tracklog). Pretty much a controlled nose dive that would have gave everyone a very wild ride. Looks like the peak altitude change rate was around 10,740 feet per minute down...when the typical is close to 2000 to 3000 fpm.

More info: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/02...ex.html?hpt=C1

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