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In that case, southwest discovered its own error and reported itself to the faa. after the latest incident, southwest elected to ground 79 of its 737s to check them for cracking. an effort the company says to make sure their passengers are safe. ted rolands, cnn, yuma, arizona. >> southwest's entire fleet is made up of various models of the boeing 737. all told, the airline has 558 of them. the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft flies an average of six flights per day. that's just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy air tran airw...

Ted rolands, cnn, yuma, arizona. >> southwest's entire fleet is made up of various models of the boeing 737. all told, the airline has 558 of them. the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft flies an average of six flights per day. that's just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy air tran airways. as ted rowlands mentioned, the worst accident was this type was 23 years ago over hawaii. a flight attendant died and many people were hurt. tomorrow night, we will speak with one of the passengers on that flight. ucla professor emeritus eri...

Ted rolands, cnn, yuma, arizona. >> southwest's entire fleet is made up of various models of the boeing 737. all told, the airline has 558 of them. the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft flies an average of six flights per day. that's just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy air tran airways. as ted rowlands mentioned, the worst accident was this type was 23 years ago over hawaii. a flight attendant died and many people were hurt. tomorrow night, we will speak with one of the passengers on that flight. ucla professor emeritus eri...

Many microscopic cracks have been found in the body of a southwest 737 that made an emergency landing friday in arizona. that's according to federal investigators who are now poring over that plane. the flight was at 36,000 feet when a four-foot hole popped open in the top of the fuselage. luckily, no one was hurt. the incident is eerily reminiscent of a 1988 accident over hawaii. in that case, a large section of plaeb came off in mid flight killing one person and injuring many others. eric beckland was a passenger on that flight and retired professor of physics and astronomy at ucla with expe...

Sunroof in the middle of the plane a big old hole. seeing daylight running through it. >> all of a sudden the oxygen mask dropped and everyone was just trying to get the mask on. >> southwest's entire fleet is made up of various models of boeing 73. 548 them of the fleet has an average age of just over 11 years. each aircraft six flights per day just under 11 hours each day. southwest is awaiting government approval to buy airtran airways. the worst accident of this type, though, was 23 years ago over hawaii. a flight attendant died and many people were hurt. i spoke with one of the passengers...