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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...

Inspections, the mechanics look very closely at the skin. where these cracks have developed are in the lap joint. these are subsurface microscopic cracks where you need have a more comprehensive program such as ultrasound or x-ray. that wasn't required in this lap joint. so the inspection was fulfilled, however we're now fining out that these failure modes, these stress cracks were in an area that weren't preplanned or pre-identified by the manufacturer so the inspection program didn't need to be that comprehensive up until now. >> let's talk about teenage of this plane. we know it's 15 years ...