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Inspections, the mechanics look very closely at the skin. where these cracks have developed are in the lap joint. these are subsurface microscopic cracks where you need have a more comprehensive program such as ultrasound or x-ray. that wasn't required in this lap joint. so the inspection was fulfilled, however we're now fining out that these failure modes, these stress cracks were in an area that weren't preplanned or pre-identified by the manufacturer so the inspection program didn't need to be that comprehensive up until now. >> let's talk about teenage of this plane. we know it's 15 years ...

Work, there was a backup plan, a fail-safe to the fail-safe, a so-called dead man's switch. the dead man's switch also failed. why? because someone didn't change the battery. so to recap, the growing list of problems with the deep water horizon oil rig owned by bp, dead battery, bad wiring, leak in the so-called blowout preventer. but perhaps the most damning evidence to come out was this -- when transocean bought that blowout preventer, which was supposed to prevent the catastrophic spill that we've seen, they were told, they knew that there were 260 possible risks for failure. >> how can a d...