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Back with me michelle sinnedor of the "new york times" and shane goldmacher of politico. this is not our industry is what he says, doug. is he right? >> by and large he is. any business, you try to be on good terms with your customers. but the airlines have been pushed, as you said, pretty much to the limit. they are flying full flights. they've cut back the number of flight attendants that are on the plane so that everybody is working that much harder. there is a lot of pressure to get things done, to get out of the gate on time. >> people do seem exhausted. you go on the flights and sometime...

A dramatic case in point. video overnight showing fists flying between two passengers on an al nippon flight from tokyo to los angeles. the passenger who took the video tells nbc news the man in the red yelled "you think i'm crazy? the government is crazy" before leaving the plane. the ceo of united airlines testifying after a doctor was dragged off an overbooked flight last month. >> we had a horrible failure three weeks ago. it is not this company and it's not this industry. we will work incredibly hard to reearn not your business necessarily but your trust because that's the most important ...

Perhaps, whether you can keep it on during takeoff and landing. a group including electronic device makers and the flight attendant's union is studying the issue and plans to release their findings by july. for missouri senator claire mccaskill, though, things could move a little faster. she's drafting legislation of her own to speed up the process. however, there's one group questioning the use of electronic devices. the national association of airline passengers. doug kid is the executive director of that group. he's also part of the group studying the issue for the faa. doug, thanks for bei...

The aircraft systems are built to take a certain amount of interference in the normal course of events. but it's one thing to have one device. it's another thing to have a couple hundred. so, you know, what's happening, of course, is we've got a moving target. new planes are being built and put in service every day and the electronics on these planes are getting better and better and better. but at the same time, new consumer products are being brought to market every day. now, it's the obligation of the airlines to make sure that these devices don't interfere with the electronics on the airpl...