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>> my son's seat, it was kind of, like, rickety, almost falling off. we were trying to push it in, hold it in longer. >> reporter: yeah. remember, the faa's scott brenner says this is a big deal because your seat on an airplane is your lifeline. listen. >> people pass out when they hit 4gs, these seats are designed so withstand 16gs worth of force, so when you look at crashes, it's very rare that you will see or almost unheard of that you will see a seat that's popped out of the aircraft frame. >> reporter: so you've got maintenance crews and the faa that's on the ground checking these various...

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 installed. now, this type of clamp was used on 47 of america's 105, 757s, which is why they are now ch...

Christchurch? >> yeah, we've stopped all emergency procedures. sorry -- all elective surgery on that. so we've freed up all the capacity we need. i think christchurch hospital had issued one of its wards and the rest is operational. we've got the capacity to take people there. so we are treating people as quickly as possible. >> the aid force is here, will you be taking advantage of the planes? >> yes, we've got all of that at the disposal, the americans have made that quite clear. we've got a very large aircraft on the ground. 757s, and other military capability. look, we are flying in people...

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