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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110404:10:33:00

prevent water in the reactor with even higher levels of radiation from leaking out. that s a bad alternative. as we mentioned more cracks have been found some southwest airlines planes. more flight cancellations are in store for passengers today. the airline has been conducting emergency inspections of its 737 300 fleet after a gaping hole opened up on the roof of a southwest plane in mid-flight at altitude last week. the plane was able to land safely, but the accident has renewed concerns about the structural integrity of those boeing 737 300s. that s the plane in particular that this happened to. you can see that gash on the roof there, just to the left of the wing. how big it is. joining us from washington, former faa chief of staff, michael goldfar. thank you for being with us. this is my pleasure, ali. this is a flier s worst nightmare. usually when it happens in a movie, ends up way worse, it s happened before in real life, being sucked out of the hole, a massive decomp

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110404:10:35:00

planes? it s a couple things. boeing stopped producing them in the 1990s. they re old by definition. southwest has 288 of them. there s about 900 worldwide. the 737 300, is especially subject to the constant short haul. the short hauls pressurized, depressurize, i forget, i think it was 37,000 cycles a lot of cycles on this particular aircraft. with that number of cycles and the constant landing and takeoff, the planes are subject to medal fatigue. it wouldn t be a problem if the inspection oversight was good. we ve had some problems with southwest. they ve been fine by the faa for laxed oversight. problems with their repair stations. the bigger problem, i think the board is addressing this, the technology used for these cracks is not necessarily going to find them. that s why the faa in november issued a new rule basically saying let s put these planes out of service. they have service limits within five years. let s get them out of the fleet

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110404:11:01:00

off to a bumpy start. he got booed off the stage in motown. we ll tell you how it went this weekend in chicago. up first, southwest airlines still inspecting 60 of its 7 737 300 jets to see if they have similar cracks to ones found on an airliner that had part of its roof ripped open mid flight. those cracks have been found on three other planes. earlier on american morning former chief of staff michael goldfarb told me age is a big problem for the 737 300s. boeing stopped producing them in the 1990s. they re old by definition. southwest has 288 around of them. there s about 900 worldwide. and the 737 300, is especially subject to the constant short haul. the short hauls pressurize, depressurize. i think it was 37,000 cycles. a lot of cycles on this particular aircraft. with that number of sishgcles and the constant landing and takeoffs, the planes are subject to metal fatigue.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110404:14:00:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110404:16:13:00

a flight attendant was slightly injured. the plane bound for sacramento made an emergency landing in yuma, arizona. it sounded like an explosion at least. all of a sudden there s a big sunroof in the middle of the plane. big old hole. you can see daylight coming through it. all of a sudden the oxygen masks dropped. everyone was just trying to get the maskses on. it was scary. it sounded like a shot and a lot of air decompressing and it was quick and it was scary. since then, southwest has grounded the 737s and canceled flights. just last hour i asked cnn s jeanne meserve about the inspections. southwest is inspecting 79 boeing 737 300s in its fleet. so far, small subsurface cracks have been detected in three additional aircraft. 19 have been returned to service. boeing is drafting a voluntary

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