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>> as a maintainer it pains me to say this, but i think we're finding more and more where it is repair related. >> there were at least two suicides in the wake of this incident. a japan airlines employee who was working with victims' families and an inspection engineer who issued a certificate of airworthiness for the doomed plane after the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we've seen the disastrous results of airplanes that are not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airlines flight 123, american fli...

>> there were two suicides in the wake of this incident, a japan airlines employee who was working with victim families. and an inspector who issued the certificate of airworthiness for the doomed plan after the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we've seen the disastrous results of airplanes not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airlines flight 123, american flight 191, aloha flight 243. we've also seen what can happen when a plane has a design flaw. but those flights are the exception, not rule. ev...

there at their convention how he would measure progress. he literally used these words, he said we measure progress differently than republicans, presumably, but it was the fact that he said we measure progress and then he described how it was he and his party measured progress, and i think it's interesting given the fact that he laid out what his report card would be to go back and score him on the very report card he laid out. he said, for instance, that we, the democrats measure progress by whether people have good jobs that can pay for mortgages. okay. we're three and a half year...

To develop over the service life after the airplane was returned into passenger use. there was no proper inspection procedure, as well. >> as jal 123 passes through 24,000 feet, cracks begin to connect between the rivets, leading the bulkhead to fail catastrophically. it's a structural failure due not to bad airplane design but to a faulty repair and inadequate oversight. >> when we look back at structural failures, how common is it that it's repair or maintenance related? >> it pains me to say this, but it's more and more we're finding repair related. >> there were at least two suicides in th...

That there's no reason to be concerned, i don't think, about the airworthiness of the airplane. that's speculative on my part. but we're not dealing with a 50 or 40-year-old airplane. we're dealing with a modernized airplane. could that have been a problem? sure, it could. it's a single engine airplane. might have lost its engine for some reason. >> what is the likelihood in crashes like this that the investigators from the faa or ntsb jointly actually find out what happened? >> i think very high. >> bob francis, you've been very helpful to us not only in explaining to us how this investigatio...