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Cutting 8% to 10% of its summer schedule, citing a challenging staffing situation. the latest numbers show that airlines are still shy. more than 30,000 workers, compared to before the pandemic. >> there's a lot of burnout. and especially among some work groups. i'm hearing from some folks saying i just can't take it anymore. >> reporter: cruise shortages are hitting airlines large and small. alaska cancelling 2% of its flights through june. delta pilots saying they're being pushed to the limits on a regular basis. >> longer days with shorter nights at home. shorter layovers and our pilots are...

>> reporter: abc news has confirmed tonight that the wing of this american airlines jet, dented by hitting a light on takeoff, also hit the runway pavement at jfk. potentially disastrous, horrifying for passengers. >> we felt the plane book pretty hard to the left. everyone just kind of held on really tight. >> reporter: just off the ground, the a-321 jet, headed for los angeles with 110 onboard, banks severely to the left, the pilot reports, and asks to return to jfk. >> uncontrolled bank, 45 degrees to the left. we had an uncommanded roll to the left as we rotated. >> what the pilot is sayin...

Did such a great job last night of describing them are the pilots' reports. today i asked the nasa head, jim bridenstine to provide all of those pilot reports which are in the possession of nasa to me, and he agreed to do so, because the indications as far back as november of this problem are disconcerting, to say the least. >> there's a question about what this does to the american air system and the general sort of oversight of the trump administration on air safety. there's been a dramatic drop in enforcement fines for major u.s. airlines in the last two years, 88% drop which is pretty rema...

Potentially those kinds of special interests. all the facts that you've just described are highly suspect, and add to it the fact that this decision was apparently based on facts still undisclosed to the american people, because they say they have new evidence. well, the rest of the world grounded these airplanes based on evidence well-known before now. and among the most chilling of those facts, and rachel maddow did such a great job last night of describing them are the pilots' reports. today i asked the nasa head, jim bridenstine to provide all of those pilot reports which are in the posses...

Turns out these two crashes that may or may not be linked, it's also these very alarming complaints that cnn has not gotten their hands on from pilots. why is this model aircraft still in the air? >> well, the model of this aircraft is still in the air because the faa seine gauging in a very clever use of words. they're down to wordsmithing. what they have said is, look, the aircraft was certified as airworthy and until we have evidence that it's not airworthy, we're not going to go back and mess with that airworthy certificate. but this revelation of these five pilot reports in addition to th...