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Aircraft will probably find some loose hardware. the question is, how is it coming out of the manufacturer, boeing, with this hardware loose? or is it happening in service? the airplane is coming out of the factory just fine, but in service use is causing these bolts and nuts to come loose, to a point where the pressurization cycle and of course aerodynamics when the airplane is in the air are causing this loose door then to be in the slip stream and get ripped off like this one did. >> yeah. gr...

Service use, it is causing these bolts and nuts to come loose to a point where the pressurization cycle and of course aerodynamics when the plane is in the air, are causing this loose or to then be in the slipstream and get ripped off like this one did. >> greg, there are so many questions that so many passengers have about this, we are waiting for an ntsb update tonight. i hope you will continue to join us as we continue to watch this throughout the week. thank you very much, greg. >> absolutel...

Fredricka is the southwest operates aircraft in whats called a high-cycle, high-fatigue environment. they run up and down, in other words the airplane goes from the ground to altitude and back dune, which is a pressurization cycle, quite frequently. much more so than a lot of other airlines. and what happens is we exercise the fuselage, as it blows up with pressure and deflats when were back on the ground. they tend to flex to metal. >> so a lot of short trips stress out the plane as opposed to ...

Our top stories now. southwest airlines is keeping lots of means on the ground today. 79 on their aircraft will get a thorough once-over before rejoining the fleet thats after passengers aboard a southwest 737 watched a large hole rip open at 36,000 feet in the air on friday. short time ago, a flight safety expert told me what probably happened. >> southwest operates aircraft in what is called a high-cycle, high-fatigue environment them run up and down, the plane goes from ground to altitude, ba...

Other airlines want to do, are these planes being taxed too much? is that why were seeing cracks in certain aircraft? >> its not a matter of the airplane being taxed too much where the stresses are induced. the fact that southwest airlines flies multiple trips on an airplane more so than maybe a long haul carrier flying a larger airplane where you may have one takeoff and landing every four hours versus southwest that has three. the fact of the matter here is that the acceleration of that schedu...

Thorough once-over before rejoining the fleet. thats after passengers aboard a southwest 737 watched a large hole rip over at 36,000 feet in the air on friday. a flight safety expert told me earlier today what likely happened. >> southwest operates aircraft in whats called a high-cycle, high-fatigue environment. they run up and down. in other words, the plane goes from ground to altitude, back down which is a pressurization cycle quite frequently, much more so than a lot of other airlines. what ...