in that case, southwest discovered its own error and reported itself to the faa. after the latest incident, southwest elected to ground 79 of its 737s to check them for cracking. an effort the company says to make sure their passengers are safe. ted rolands, cnn, yuma, arizona. southwest s entire fleet is made up of various models of the boeing 737. all told, the airline has 558 of them. the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft flies an average of six flights per day. that s just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy air tran airways. the worst accident of this type was 23 years ago over hawaii. a flight attendant died and many people were hurt. tomorrow night, we will speak with one of the passengers on that flight. ucla professor emeritus eric beckland. another close call in the air today. an atlantic southeast airlines
ted rolands, cnn, yuma, arizona. southwest s entire fleet is made up of various models of the boeing 737. all told, the airline has 558 of them. the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft flies an average of six flights per day. that s just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy air tran airways. as ted rowlands mentioned, the worst accident was this type was 23 years ago over hawaii. a flight attendant died and many people were hurt. tomorrow night, we will speak with one of the passengers on that flight. ucla professor emeritus eric beckland. another close call in the air today. an atlantic southeast airlines jet, a delta regional partner, was forced to make an emergency landing in little rock, arkansas, after striking a flock of birds. you can see the damage to the plane s nose and around the engine. the 49 passengers and crew members were shaken but nobody was hurt.
ted rolands, cnn, yuma, arizona. southwest s entire fleet is made up of various models of the boeing 737. all told, the airline has 558 of them. the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft flies an average of six flights per day. that s just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy air tran airways. as ted rowlands mentioned, the worst accident was this type was 23 years ago over hawaii. a flight attendant died and many people were hurt. tomorrow night, we will speak with one of the passengers on that flight. ucla professor emeritus eric beckland. another close call in the air today. an atlantic southeast airlines jet, a delta regional partner, was forced to make an emergency landing in little rock, arkansas, after striking a flock of birds. you can see the damage to the plane s nose and around the engine. the 49 passengers and crew members were shaken but nobody was hurt.
put on the mask. i m holding the hand of the guy next to me trying not to bawl my eyes out. nobody freaked out on the flight. there was one woman who got upset, but everybody stayed calm. the flight attendants were amazing. an atlantic southeast airlines jet was forced to make an emergency landing in little rock, arkansas. that plane collided with a flock of birds. you can see the damage to the plane s nose in the pictures there. no one on the plane was injured, thankfully. overseas, an opposition spokesman in libya says more than a dozen rebel fighters are dead, not from battle against moammar gadhafi s troops and tanks, but from a nato air strike. nato is investigating. rebel forces also claim to have retaken the oil city of brega but that city has changed hands six times in six weeks. workers at japan s crippled nuclear plant are pouring concrete into a cracked shaft
it would be the difference between a how a professional race car driver handles a tire blowout at 150 miles an hour and a person that s never done that. reporter: while it s not common for landing gear to fail, it has happened to atlantic southeast airlines. june of last year, in atlanta, an atlantic southeast bombardier jet successfully landed with the left main gear only partially extended. the incident is still under investigation. and in 2002, an atlantic southeast aircraft successfully landed in spite of a left landing gear failure. the ntsb determined that failure was due to a fatigue crack in the landing gear. it would be surprising if that were the case of this incident boss the bombardier jet in this case is only a year and a half old. the national transportation safety board and the naa will be