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Boats racing in the schnooer war of regatta in key west? the teams had to build boats of plywood and duct tape. a sheet of mywood. two eight foot long two we by fours, a roll of duct tape, a pad of fasteners. >> he knew it was going down. >> it's impressive when you have that. so that's impressive, but how about this too? when it comes to -- you're a grill master, right? your domain? >> i have my own skills. i can hold my own. >> see if this is something for you or you at home. a smart grill, wi-fi and a smartphone, and this baby can fire up and cook your filet perfect temperature by sending y...

Asiana crash in san francisco to check the door pins and the fasteners for the emergency slides. things can just -- the plane just comes apart in that. >> two other points. i hear people saying, well, it had to be something big, but isn't that actually a little untrue that a small problem can become a big problem very quickly at that altitude? >> right. in any accident, it's always is series of things. in tw 800 it was the wiring in the fuel tank. what happens is little things unravel. like in air france, they were losing their airspeed, they weren't paying attention and they had a stall and l...

Frankly, it's because we have no evidence of the physical breakup of the aircraft, we have no evidence of a catastrophic failure, that most aviation safety people, when they hear about the passports, probably overly fixate on them. we know we have an aviation security problem, but as it was said with safety officials, we don't know, in fact, that these passports that were stolen, millions are stolen every year, in fact, had anything to do with this crash. i mean, it's interesting to note that you can get strip searched at an airport, and yet a passport isn't verified through interpol. let's pu...

To have to be metal fatigue. this was a 737, only 15 years old. more important than the age is the number of cycles, takeoffs and landings. every time a plane goes through a cycle, it puts the stress on the skin of the airplane here which is made up of panels that are connected by fasteners and rivets and the plane contracts and expands during each cycle stressing that metal skin. this is not the first time a southwest plane, a 737, has had a problem with a hole in the skin opening up. you may recall july of 2009 there was a southwest flight from nashville to baltimore. it made an emergency la...

The skin of the plane, which is made up of panels connected by fasteners and also by rivets. the plane contracts and expands during that cycle and that stresses out the metal skin. this is not the first time a southwest 737 has had a problem with the hole in the skin opening up. in july 2009, southwest flight 2294 from nashville to baltimore made an emergency landing in west virginia after a crack opened up where two sheets of aluminum are open. no one injured there. the most famous case of metal fatigue, in 1988, aloha airlines opened up over hawaii. one attendant was sucked out of the plane ...