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Our top stories now. southwest airlines is keeping lots of means on the ground today. 79 on their aircraft will get a thorough once-over before rejoining the fleet that's after passengers aboard a southwest 737 watched a large hole rip open at 36,000 feet in the air on friday. short time ago, a flight safety expert told me what probably happened. >> southwest operates aircraft in what is called a high-cycle, high-fatigue environment them run up and down, the plane goes from ground to altitude, back and down, pressurization cycle quite frequently. much more so than other airlines. what happens ...

Other airlines want to do, are these planes being taxed too much? is that why we're seeing cracks in certain aircraft? >> it's not a matter of the airplane being taxed too much where the stresses are induced. the fact that southwest airlines flies multiple trips on an airplane more so than maybe a long haul carrier flying a larger airplane where you may have one takeoff and landing every four hours versus southwest that has three. the fact of the matter here is that the acceleration of that schedule prompts the airlines to have to do more inspections on a more periodic basis than some of the l...

Thorough once-over before rejoining the fleet. that's after passengers aboard a southwest 737 watched a large hole rip over at 36,000 feet in the air on friday. a flight safety expert told me earlier today what likely happened. >> southwest operates aircraft in what's called a high-cycle, high-fatigue environment. they run up and down. in other words, the plane goes from ground to altitude, back down which is a pressurization cycle quite frequently, much more so than a lot of other airlines. what happens is we exercise that fuselage, it blows up, if you will with pressure and deflates when we ...