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United, the back bone of that long haul aircraft is the triple 7. it has an excellent safety record. if we talk about incidents with the triple seven probably the most serious before this was the british airways incident where the plane lost power on its approach to london heathrow and crashed. just before it glided in for the last half mile or so short of the runway. on that occasion and before everybody starts to draw similarities it was entirely because of a problem with icing in the fuel system which has since been well rectified and dealt with. anyone who wants to refer to the british air...

For those 28 and 28 right. bad weather can sometimes be an influence. san francisco, low fog and the sort of weather they often enjoy or suffer in the bay area. as we know today there were none of those incidents or questions. it was a clear day from everything that we are hearing at the moment. the triple 7 aircraft. let's talk for a second or two about that. it does have an excellent record. when you think that 1400 of them have been ordered. substantially there's only been one or two serious incidents in all the time it has been flying. lots of glitches or things on the way but nothing, abs...

Obviously the newer models can fly more than 8,000 nautical miles without stopping to refuel. it cruises about 43,000 feet. were there ever many issues with the triple 7? >> nothing that is in the league we're talking about today. if you go back to 1990 when it came into service there was the usual teething problems but since then we've had the triple 7, 200. we've had the er. we've had the lr, the 300. we are now on the triple 7 300 er. the one that crashed today was a 200. er standing for extended range. more than 1400 have been sold. if you look at the u.s. aviation fleet, if you look at un...