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Delays. they got flights in here early. well see how that afternoon wave goes. i dont wanna call it a success yet because of course its a noon. well see how it goes in the afternoon. keep an eye on the hubs. this is what experts say. keep an eye on the places where airlines are base because that is where we could see those domino effects. thats where we could see some major pain. take a listen to what the managing editor of the points guide had to say. >> unfortunately, when cancellations and de...

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Passengers say it sounded like an explosion and sent the plane into a nosedive. >> i was texting my sister to make certain that she told my kids that i loved them. >> it was in back of me to the left. and i did hear it. it sounded like a shot and a lot of air decompressing. it was quick and it was scary. >> since then the airline has found cracks in three more planes. so how did those cracks go unnoticed? last hour i spoke with mary schiavo, a former inspector general of the u.s. department of t...

737s ripped apart at 34,000 feet. passengers say it sounded like an explosion. >> my husband said when he looked up, its immediately, oh, my gosh, its a blue sky. we looked at each other and thought, oh, my gosh, this is not a good sign. immediately put our head down, looked up, the air masks fell down immediately within seconds, so we grabbed our masks, started to kind of look out the window, and as soon as i tried to look out the window and put up the shade screens, the aircraft went into a co...

You could drill out the cracks and then let the plane fly with cracks. that might work for some other airline, but not for southwest. because they have the punishing schedule for their planes in the industry. why, because they get good usage out of their planes, five, six, seven flights a day and that puts a lot of strain on an old plane. >> so the case of getting special equipment to look at these planes to make sure they donate have cracks, isnt it worth it? >> it is. but unfortunately what we...

Southwest did hire experts to come in and look at the cracking situation. but the experts in boeing said that some cracking was okay. in some cases up to six inches. >> we should note that this isnt the first time this has happened. back in 2009, a southwest plane was forced to make an emergency landing for the very same thing. that was four months after the airline was fined $7.5 million by the faa for failing to perform mandatory inspections for fuselage cracks on nearly 60,000 flights. it i...

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Events. that, obviously, could change. >> jeanne meserve live in washington. thank you. southwest has had this kind of problem before, as i said. the faa slapped the airline with a huge fine because of it, so why are these planes still cracking? why is the fuselage still cracking? well ask a former inspector general from the transportation department in just a few minutes. also, that just in. were getting reports of a unit airline flight that reported visible smoke in the cockpit shortly after...