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Around and make an emergency landing at dallas/fort worth airport. the passengers were told to brace for a crash landing, some said they were scared to death, but despite that, the plane landed without incident. and because of all these labor problems at american airlines, some of the passengers were skeptical wondering if there really was a landing gear problem or if it was of just another job action by the pilots. the airline says the gear did jam which, of course, adds to the lengthy list of maintenance problems including the thurm of 757s -- the number of 757s with loose or disengaged seat...

>> our seats, 14 abc i think are totally disconnected. >> somehow in the installation process of our seats we introduced a failure. not sure mechanical failure or human failure. >> reporter: american saying it identified what caused three flights to be aborted in mid flight because seats came loose. in one case, flipping passengers on their backs. the seats came in rows of three. and the row is held to the floor with what is called a saddle clamp. it's that clamp that was improperly installed on the planes where the seats disengaged. >> on the safety side of this particular situation, american...

Result of sabotage. trace gallagher live in our west coast news hub. american is talking about this and indicating that it knows where the problem is here. where is that? >> yeah. in fact, american flew engineers and technicians from their tulsa maintenance facility up to jfk to inspect these 757s with the loose seat problems and what they focused on was the track that kind of holds the seat secure and found something called a saddle clamp, which is on the legs of the seats. it was improperly installed. now, this type of clamp was used on 47 of america's 105, 757s, which is why they are now ch...