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Thinking about the responsibility we take in a very different way and where we are now is where we are with the responsibility to more proactively seat problems and prevent. >> you said we didnt seat negative parts, i dont know if you meant human beings, but ive known quite a few bad ones, but idea is what is in your culture that didnt see that? >> all right. "the revolution" special. tech titans shaping our future airs tonight at 6:00 eastern right here on msnbc. but as it grew bigger and bigge...

But theyre there to protect the property not people. >> what was it like for you to have this infor mags to s forma. see the modeling. run models. go out. seat problems with the levees. raising the red flags. not have people listen. subsequently when you were saying -- this wasnt over topping. this was a failure of the levees. the army corps of engineers did not build these properly. they were fight back against you. >> it was extreme frustrating. what we realize. early on. we had become the voi...

More. reporter: you have to keep in mind that america only has a hundred 17 planes. you take 48 of them out of the loop because of seat problems, that is 8% being rotated out. fifty-five canceled today, 44 yesterday, certainly more tomorrow. at first they thought this seat problem was a faulty hardware problem. now they are looking at wear and tear. they are looking at things like wear and tear and even coke and soda that spilled into the cracks and pop depends loose. imagine not? they hope all ...

Out to a contractor as a way to save money for the airline. and the maintenance workers union is furious with the airline for saying it was those union workers who were responsible for the seat problems. the union is blaming the outside contractor. no surprise there. lump all of this in with the fact that a london bound flight out of chicago had to make an emergency landing in ireland because of smoke in the cabin. american airlines is clearly an airline with an uphill climb as it tries to remai...

Result of sabotage. trace gallagher live in our west coast news hub. american is talking about this and indicating that it knows where the problem is here. where is that? >> yeah. in fact, american flew engineers and technicians from their tulsa maintenance facility up to jfk to inspect these 757s with the loose seat problems and what they focused on was the track that kind of holds the seat secure and found something called a saddle clamp, which is on the legs of the seats. it was improperly in...

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