Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110403:14:33:00
Left alone to ground its fleet. they would have grounded the aircraft had southwest not voluntarily done it. the problem is with the history of maintenance of the 737. some guests have talked about the aloha crash in 1988 where sea water, corrosion and repeated short hops created a situation of metal fatigue. we saw it with the airways out of florida, i believe, with the same thing. southwest had an incident a year or so ago. we know the number of cycles, pressurezation, depressurezation puts stress on them. we have a maintenance problem and i think that's going to be a difficult issue going f...