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Electric and a french company named snekma. it powered the 737 fleet and also a large percentage of the air bus a-320 family. >> those are obviously very widely used planes. are they likely to do some kind of mechanical check on all of these engine types? >> until we know what caused it, if this was just a one rogue carbon disc or compression disc. it had been dropped or something like that, then it would not require a fleet inspection. so they need to understand first what happened and theyll b...

On a number and theres no agreement on the policy rider. >> i have confidence we can get this done. were not there yet. >> if its shut down its because harry reid refuses to sit and negotiate. >> i understand how bad congress looks from the inside because im one of them. >> jt said if he could speak to all of us in washington, he would tell you that all of this political grandstanding has effects, and it trickles down to normal, everyday americans. >> if they stopped our federal paychecks it wou...

Hole is larger than first reported. >> the fracture area is five feet by one foot wide. a preliminary onsite inspection reveals preexisting fatigue along the entire fracture surface. >> reporter: the ntsb is cutting out the fracture surface so it can be more closely examined. they say they see no sign of faulty maintenance. >> we have no indications that something was actually missed in an inspection, something that could have been detected that wasnt detected. >> reporter: the planes flight rec...

Spread cracking across this entire fracture surface. >> reporter: damages along one of the lap joints not detected in regular maintenance checks. >> what the issue is is that along this particular lap joint, it was not known in the industry that this was an area on airplanes of this number of cycles that those lap joints should be inspected. >> reporter: boeing, the maker of the 737 300, is drafting a service bulletin to require special inspections of the lap joints in all of the 737s with compa...

A preliminary on site examination reveals pre-existing fatigue along the entire fracture surface. >> the question this morning is did southwest ignore those warning signs on these planes? joining us now is the former managing director of the ntsb. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> do you believe they ignored warning signs? >> well, we wont know until we go back over their records. i mean, this plane went through a check less than a year ago which is a very comprehensive tear down and rebu...

Activated. the stress fackture, the south africature area is five feet by one foot wide. where the skin comes together, on the aircraft, it doesnt just come together like this. its overlaps. that is called a "lab joint." and at each joint there are three rows of rivets. that run down the aircraft longitudinally. and we have clear evidence that the skin separated at the lower rivet line. a preliminary on-site examination reveals preexisting fatigue along the entire fracture surface. this is a ter...

>> two part question. as a result of the grounding of southwest airlines airplanes yesterday did they find anything else and i am not aware of any additional information -- any additional problems that southwest has found. however, again, being that they are a party to the investigation we would expect that if they are getting information that they would be feeding that back to us. and the second part of the question was on this -- on the accident airplane have we found any additional areas of f...

The cabin holding passengers, opened up and exposed them to the clear blue sky and the need for oxygen. >> preliminary on sight examination reveals preexisting fatigue along the entire fracture surface. >> harris: serious injuries to the flight attendants and passengers and people were fainting from the lack of cabin pressure. they didnt make it to a commercial runway, they had to touch down at a marine air station. fox report is live with our casey stegall. casey. >> reporter: yeah, harris, the...