Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110404:19:51:00
An aircraft problem versus an airline problem? >> absolutely. when you look at the pressure rye zags cycle, it takes off and starts at landing. that's how we gauge an airplane, not in calendar years but cycles. for a boeing 737, it's young for its vintage, given the fact that other planes are 70, 80,000 cycles in the same vintage. that's why it's of concern to the ntsb and faa. in a please that even the manufacturer had not anticipated in the past. >> i've heard experts say and ntsb saying, this is not the kind of crack. you mentioned microscopic, right, that you wouldn't find it unless you we...