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Your word is...cow. cow. cow. c...o...w... ...e...i...e...i...o. [buzzer] dangnabbit. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. some passengers are trying to figure out when theyll feel comfortable flying again. an airline industry insider happened to be at laguardia airport when the southwest plane landed. youre in the industry. you are a former department of transportation inspector general. what do you think the problem was there? >> i think its probably going to be a maintena...

Front landing gear is not down? >> not really. i think its a minor problem if it is handled correctly. what he would have done if he knew he had a problem, he would have landed very nose high on the main gear until he could at the last minute lower it down on the nose gear, then it wouldnt have been very consequential. in this case i think the fact that he veered off the main runway at laguardia says he didnt know he had a problem until he sat down. bill: it takes some skill. southwest, how is t...

Excessive heat warnings in detroit as well. it will be felt all across the region. the humidity is the worst of it making it feel like its in the triple digits. especially along the i-95 corridor. relief in the weekend in the form of strong thunderstorms. back to you. >> andrew, thank you. as temperatures hit triple digits in the southwest, more than 150 passengers were stuck in a hot plane in arizona for two and a half hours. a maintenance problem left the allegiant airlines flight without ai...

What does this company need to do to get out of it. if they hire you what would you tell them? >> at first you can attribute the first couple of incidents to bad luck but now you have to look at it. is this a management problem, is this a maintenance problem? there is a lot of questions emerge. first thing the company should have done was sent out letters to all members, anybody who has taken one of their cruise ships before or taken a cruise ship and describe the procedures they are putting in ...

Left alone to ground its fleet. they would have grounded the aircraft had southwest not voluntarily done it. the problem is with the history of maintenance of the 737. some guests have talked about the aloha crash in 1988 where sea water, corrosion and repeated short hops created a situation of metal fatigue. we saw it with the airways out of florida, i believe, with the same thing. southwest had an incident a year or so ago. we know the number of cycles, pressurezation, depressurezation puts st...

Would rise to the occasion and love every minute of it. they would -- what he would tell them is you have to be on natural resource -- our natural resource in the united states. make your pick. we dont care. but just be on american resources in eight years. >> larry: another call. martinsville, virginia. hello. >> caller: yes, good afternoon, mr. pickens. i worked as a mechanic for over 30 years in a chemical plant. and we followed a lot of strict safety rules. also as a mechanic we did a lot of...

I think the american people would rise to the occasion and love every minute of it. they would -- what he would tell them is you have to be on natural resource -- our natural resource in the united states. make your pick. we dont care. but just be on american resources in eight years. >> larry: another call. martinsville, virginia. hello. >> caller: yes, good afternoon, mr. pickens. i worked as a mechanic for over 30 years in a chemical plant. and we followed a lot of strict safety rules. also a...

The plane is great. it is a terrific machine. when you design an airliner, you have a team the of people who are supposed to figure out everything that is going to go wrong with it, and then come up with a solution no matter what goes wrong with it, there is a backup system, and backup to the backup system. and so to have all of the systems not work suggests that either something happened that had never happened before and nothing that can be imagine d happening before or some maintenance proble...