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Quiet and people are just very relaxed to tell an airplane, hey, contact the center 1-3-9. good night. see ya. or, bye-bye. so, again, are we going to find out that that is absolutely related to something? maybe. maybe not. but we're taking bits and pieces of this story, out of the context of the begin, the middle and the end, and we're all guessing and, again, i go back to the fact that we're basing most of this on the malaysian input, and i have come to not trust that in the last week. >> okay. bill savage. rob mark. brian alexander. arthur rosenberg. you're all going to stick around as far ...

That can make somebody just skip something or perhaps miss something that they normally would never do. jenna: well, rob -- >> you know, you raise an interesting -- jenna: let me just jump in here, rob. john, i'll be to you in just a second, but as smart consumers, rob, should we not fly airlines when they're going through a bankruptcy because as you describe, there can be a lot of things that can happen. is this something that maybe as consumers we avoid american airlines for a while? >> well, i think anybody from american is going to tell you that the airline is operating perfectly safe. but...

As we continue to take in some of these live pictures, rob, one of the questions we have, and that's why i asked john about whether or not he's ever heart of this happening before is whether or not this is a problem because, listen, we're flying around planes that are older, or it's a problem specific to american airlines and something to do with their maintenance, rob. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, having lived through an airline bankruptcy when i flew for midway, i can just tell you that when a bankruptcy happens, things fall through the cracks. i'm not going to, you know, pin the...

An aircraft. right now the american airlines has issued several thousand furlough notices, so it's closed an entire maintenance base in oklahoma. so now you have a very demoralized maintenance crew. the maintenance people are also allowed to make write-ups, and so are the crew chiefs. jenna: the faa is investigating, and we wanted to do a little reporting ourselves. john gulia is a former member of the national transportation safety board, also a former airline mechanic. also joining us on the phone is rob mark, he's a commercial pilot and edits an industry-wide blog, covers everything called ...

In accordance with the proper procedures. and american needs additional management personnel to oversee the work that's being done, especially if it is outsourced. jenna: just so our viewers know, that's part of the story, apparently, that some of the maintenance work is being outsource today a contracting company, so there's finger pointing going on between management, the unions the outsourced company. there's just a lot happening in this one story, so it's one we're going to continue to follow. john and rob, thank you very much for your expertise today. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. ...