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<p>A Southwest Airlines plane sits in a remote area of the Yuma International Airport on Monday, after the plane had a section of fuselage tear from the plane during a flight on Friday. Three more Southwest Airlines jetliners have small, subsurface cracks that are similar to the ones suspected in the fuselage tear on the plane shown. Federal aviation officials are considering an order for other airlines to inspect their aircraft.</p>

<p>A Southwest Airlines plane sits in a remote area of the Yuma International Airport on Monday, after the plane had a section of fuselage tear from the plane during a flight on Friday. Three more Southwest Airlines jetliners have small, subsurface cracks that are similar to the ones suspected in the fuselage tear on the plane shown. Federal aviation officials are considering an order for other airlines to inspect their aircraft.</p>

April 5, 2011

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Safe skies?
April 5, 2011 9 p.m.

Safe skies?

Southwest accident prompts FAA inspection order

PHOENIX - Federal aviation officials readied an order Monday for emergency inspections on 80 U.S.-registered Boeing 737 jetliners like the one on which a piece of fuselage tore open more than 30,000 feet above Arizona last week.