in this particular boeing 737-300 series aircraft, but they say that it would not have been visible to the naked eye, which iserhaps why it passed inspection, and was allowed to fly in the first place. they are not sure how long the cracks had been there. also faa records showing back in march of 2010 multiple cracks were found in this exact same airplane, but were fixed by the airline. cracking is wear and tear on an airplane, it s something that we do see from the first time an airplane flies we get wear and tear on it, and that s the reason that our fleet of air planes has redundancy built into it and that s why we have maintenance and inspection requirements. reporter: of course the goal here is to try and figure out how on earth this jetliner split open as it was cruising some 36,000 feet above the arizona
lab in washington, d.c. today for analysis. investigators say that they have also found what they call preexisting fatigue and cracking in this particular boeing 737-300 series aircraft, but they say that it would not have been visible to the naked eye which is perhaps why it was missed in visual inspection. they re not sure how long the cracks had been there, but faa records do show that back in march 2010 multiple cracks were found on this exact same airplane, but were fixed by the airline. cracking is wear and tear on an airplane. it s something that we do see, from the first time an airplane flies, we get wear and tear on it, and that s the reason that our fleet of airplanes has redundancy built into it, and that s why we have inspection requirements, maintenance and inspection requirements, to make sure that they have
saying they raised the bar pretty high. reporter: they have but they expect deep water drilling in the gulf of mexico to resume before year s end. rig operators must demonstrate in advance they can handle a blowout like the one that kurd april that occurred in april. there will be new inspection requirements and independent third party reviews of the designs for blow out preventsers and new standards for well design and casing and cement which must be certified by a professional engineer. companies and some rigs that will come into compliance and will move forward for the permitting process and we will soon have a deep water drilling resuming in the outer shelf in the gulf. there are others that may take longer for them to come into compliance with the regulations.
agrees, not surprisingly, including his predecessor. and, those foreign countries that signed onto the deal. so where do we stand now? you can go pretty much to any corner of the globe and get reaction to the president s decision s statement here at the white house inside of the diplomatic room a few minutes ago when they would be pulling out of the iran nuclear deal. those were who were lobbying pt a statement saying they remain committed to the deal and are concerned with the president s decision. and they have this message for iran. they rode in, we encouraged iran to show restraint and response to the decision by the u.s. iran must continue to meet its obligations under the deal, cooperating fully and in a timely matter with i aea inspection requirements. the iranian president set a little while ago that there will only be a short time to negotiate with others to keep the deal in place, and if not, iran will enrich more uranium
customers, prior to the event of flight 81 we were in compliance that the faa mandated and boeing inspection requirements for that aircraft. what we saw with flight 81 was a # 12 was a new and unknown issue, end quote. martha: well, inspections of other southwest planes now taking place at airports across the nation as you would expect and as you would want to see. here s a look at paynefield in seattle where many of the grounded planes have been brought to be inspected. so they re going to have a busy day there. bill how would you like to be a passenger? martha: i would absolutely hate it. i would not handle that well. bill: you d have a story to tell for a very long time. the people aboard that flight now describing the moments when they noticed the hole in the jet over their head. watch: all of the sudden, there was a mass drop, and it was really windy and ears hurt. the top of the plane has ripped off and all of the