Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched investigators to examine a Southwest Airlines jet after it made an emergency landing in West Virginia yesterday after a hole opened in the body of the airplane and the cabin lost pressure.
At 6:07 p.m. EDT, Southwest Flight 2294, a Boeing 737-300 (N387SW) flying from Nashville to Baltimore Washington International Airport, experienced rapid decompression. The crew declared an emergency and landed at Charleston, W.Va. On examination, crews discovered a one-foot-wide hole in the top of the fuselage. No injuries resulted from the mishap, but oxygen masks deployed.
Southwest inspected 181 of its 737-300s overnight and found no evidence of any abnormalities in their fuselage skins. According to the FAA Registry, N387SW (S/N 26602) was manufactured in 1994.

NTSB Sends Team To Inspect Hole in Southwest Airlines 737

The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched investigators to examine a Southwest Airlines jet after it made an emergency landing in West Virgin

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