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Your word is...cow. cow. cow. c...o...w... ...e...i...e...i...o. [buzzer] dangnabbit. geico. fifteen minutes could save you...well, you know. some passengers are trying to figure out when they'll feel comfortable flying again. an airline industry insider happened to be at laguardia airport when the southwest plane landed. you're in the industry. you are a former department of transportation inspector general. what do you think the problem was there? >> i think it's probably going to be a maintenance problem. this plane has not had a series of these.

Front landing gear is not down? >> not really. i think it's a minor problem if it is handled correctly. what he would have done if he knew he had a problem, he would have landed very nose high on the main gear until he could at the last minute lower it down on the nose gear, then it wouldn't have been very consequential. in this case i think the fact that he veered off the main runway at laguardia says he didn't know he had a problem until he sat down. bill: it takes some skill. southwest, how is that airline's record? >> well they have, in recent months they have been criticized for possibly ...

Excessive heat warnings in detroit as well. it will be felt all across the region. the humidity is the worst of it making it feel like it's in the triple digits. especially along the i-95 corridor. relief in the weekend in the form of strong thunderstorms. back to you. >> andrew, thank you. as temperatures hit triple digits in the southwest, more than 150 passengers were stuck in a hot plane in arizona for two and a half hours. a maintenance problem left the allegiant airlines flight without air conditioning even though the plane was at the gate. the passengers were forced to stay in the sea...

What does this company need to do to get out of it. if they hire you what would you tell them? >> at first you can attribute the first couple of incidents to bad luck but now you have to look at it. is this a management problem, is this a maintenance problem? there is a lot of questions emerge. first thing the company should have done was sent out letters to all members, anybody who has taken one of their cruise ships before or taken a cruise ship and describe the procedures they are putting in place. they need to get out of ahead of that. ceo recently announced he is going to reevaluate all t...

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...