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V8. what's your number? >> welcome back. as we just told you, southwest airlines expected to cancel about 100 more flights today after federal investigators found cracks in three other jetliners. >> that after a massive hole in a passenger jet's fuselage forced an emergency landing on friday. >> we have clear evidence that the skin separated at the lower rivet line.
Entirely possible that you'll see boeing today issue a service bulletin recommending that airlines around the world do immediate checks on this rivet line, the lap joint. you might see the faa weigh in very soon. >> tom, you know, we hear all of these conflicting pieces of information that come at us when something like this takes place. would you and your kids get on a 737 300? >> in a heart beat, yeah. >> good. >> i think you need to look at the fact that is the work horse of not only the -- of southwest airline, but a work horse for airlines across the country. this was an isolated incident...
Now these are very small cracks, none of the same scale as the plane that was forced to make the emergency landing in yuma, arizona. but they did find these three cracks and they plan to do whatever they have to do fix them. the bigger context are, or the bigger question as it relates to this 737, is why did they not find this crack a year ago when they did a major overhaul, a 14-year overhaul. the answer seems to be that they -- the cracking was in a place they had never seen cracking before, in a plane with so few, for 14 years, cycles, a cycle is every time you take off or land. they found ...
A preliminary on site examination reveals pre-existing fatigue along the entire fracture surface. >> the question this morning is did southwest ignore those warning signs on these planes? joining us now is the former managing director of the ntsb. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> do you believe they ignored warning signs? >> well, we won't know until we go back over their records. i mean, this plane went through a check less than a year ago which is a very comprehensive tear down and rebuild. and these kinds of fractures or skin cracks are supposed to be identified and fixed so we'll g...
Focused on ensuring that it d e doesn't have a wider and broader problem. the ntsb have found a crack along an area on the top of the plane along a rivet line. and it is in an area where they never expected to see that kind of cracking after few cycles. in this case 40,000 cycles. to have 40 thousand lannings and a crack develop is concerning and they expect boeing to issue a service industry. they are flown around the world though.