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Soda cans burst on Southwest flights due to extreme heat
The extreme heat searing the U.S. this summer is having an unexpected consequence thousands of feet in the air: It's causing some beverage cans on Southwest Airlines flights to burst when opened.
toggle caption Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Summer temperatures across the U.S. are so high that they’ve created problems at cruising altitude, causing some overheated beverages to burst midair on a number of Southwest Airlines flights. Many of the airports where Southwest has a large presence — such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin, Dallas, Houston and Sacramento — are located in cities that have already broken temperature records this year, as a result of heat waves fueled by climate change. Once airborne, the company is instructing flight attendants — who take passengers’ orders and then bring them their drink, rather than pushing a beverage cart through the aisle — to not open any cans that look misshapen or feel hot to the touch, and to instead offer customers an alternative and an apology.
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