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Service while the faa works with boeing and southwest to evaluate a proposal that would allow the airline to continue flying the planes until inspections are completed. so we do know that they did come up with an agreement with the faa. they will be allowed to fly these planes for another five days while these checks happen. but as a result of this you know yesterday we saw 80 cancellations. today we saw fewer than that as a result of these missed maintenance checks. it's sloppy paperwork. sloppy maintenance as it relates to keeping track of when they need to get these checks done. but as you ...

In the last time it's been running. >> it's a budget airline, right? >> caller: it is a budget airline. but they have an affiliated company with fliers with bigger planes. >> what sort of fleet do they have? >> caller: we need to remember that the aircraft that's missing is indonesia airasia, which is an affiliate of the malaysian carrier air's yeah. so this fleet has 30 aircraft whereas the group has more than 100 aircraft. >> and tell us what you know about, you know the sort of maintenance checks and the routine that these planes go through. >> caller: one would expect that this is a very w...

Maintenance checks for the emergency locator transmitters? disrupt apparent in their demands for a copy of flight 370's log book and the raw au o audiotapes from air traffic control. >> the families should have access to all of that kind of information. >> reporter: meanwhile, the search in the indian ocean remains stop and go, with the second setback in as many days for the bluefin-21. the underwater robot's 24-hour mission cut to about 11 hours, after an oil, used to protect its electronic components from saltwater, ran low. data collected, again, showed no sign of flight 370. mission three ...

Cancelinator does. >> so it's more than the weather. it's complicated? >> yes. think of it as an equation with so many variables in it. they need regular maintenance checks and you have to abide by the schedule. and then what about your passengers? some of them are on very high-priced tickets, some are on lower-priced tickets. you want to take care of your best customers, too. >> well, let's talk about that. all flights are not created equal and it has nothing to do with the crew available or the weather. >> well, yes, it does. it's sort of a balancing act but if you weigh things, then you mig...

Derailment in canada carrying more than a million gallons of oil went off the tracks in quebec last month and nearly flattened a town and killed nearly four dozen people. now, reports a canadian judge granted bankruptcy protection to the company that owns that train as the u.s. and canada push for it to pay for all those clean-up costs. the company estimates it could cost more than $200 million. spanish lawmakers are demanding answers today calling on had thes of two rail companies to testify about that train derailment that killed 79 people last month. one of the railway presidents saying a...