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Those clouds with heavy rain in it. the other is the structural integrity of the aircraft. the a-320 is an incredibly sound machine. however, of late the faa issued an airworthiness directive requiring mandatory inspections for fuselage cracks which the air worth airworthiness says could affect the structure of the aircraft. it will cause serious problems for that airplane. >> let's jump overseas. joining us live from singapore, katie tur with the latest. do we know outcome of the search and rescue? we're going into nighttime over there. what do we know about the search and rescue efforts?

Recorders. when one ends, let the other one start. >> that's a very interesting question. going back to mentioning the system nav canada is involved in, one of their suggestions is that there is a system that always have a standby trance mitder that is always transmitting that can't be turned off from the cockpit so you would always know where the airplane is. >> i like it. you bring such great information to the story. >> thank you very much. >> i hope we're talking about that we have a conclusion. you just mentioned one possible cause that authorities are considering. whether or not flight...

For fuselage cracks on nearly 60,000 flights. mary schiavo now represents clients suing the airline industry. good morning, mary. >> good morning, carol. >> just two years ago, they were fined $7.5 million because they did not inspect planes for this very problem. what was up with that? was the fine not big enough? >> probably not, the fine wasn't big enough. but two things occurred. one, they allowed visual inspections. some of these cracks are very difficult to see and you have to use ultrasonic or sometimes even magnetic resonance. you have to treat to plane as if it's a body and you're loo...

Hole is larger than first reported. >> the fracture area is five feet by one foot wide. a preliminary onsite inspection reveals preexisting fatigue along the entire fracture surface. >> reporter: the ntsb is cutting out the fracture surface so it can be more closely examined. they say they see no sign of faulty maintenance. >> we have no indications that something was actually missed in an inspection, something that could have been detected that wasn't detected. >> reporter: the plane's flight recorders are in washington. no one was seriously injured when the hole burst open at 36,000 feet fri...

Southwest did hire experts to come in and look at the cracking situation. but the experts in boeing said that some cracking was okay. in some cases up to six inches. >> we should note that this isn't the first time this has happened. back in 2009, a southwest plane was forced to make an emergency landing for the very same thing. that was four months after the airline was fined $7.5 million by the faa for failing to perform mandatory inspections for fuselage cracks on nearly 60,000 flights. it is official, folks. here is the message president obama tweeted this morning. it announced he is lau...