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Aircraft cracks not found in routine inspections
Southwest Airlines canceled 100 flights Monday and about 600 over the weekend to conduct inspections, following an incident Friday when a hole opened in the roof of one of the company’s Boeing 737 planes during flight and caused an emergency landing in Arizona.
Initial inspection of the plane and the 5-foot by 1-foot hole showed cracking in the plane’s skin, which the National Transportation Safety Board says would likely not be visible during routine inspections. Weekend examinations of other aircraft found found “small, subsurface cracks” or indications of cracks in three other planes.
Why are Southwest planes having this problem, and is it specific to the airline's fleet? Today on American Morning, former FAA chief of staff Michael Goldfarb talks about the Boeing 737-300 plane's maintenance track record with AM’s Ali Velshi.
Flying Southwest? The company says to check its site to see if your flight is among the canceled trips. http://www.southwest.com/html/travel_center/delays_cancellations.html
Read CNN's coverage of Friday's emergency landing here.
Blind fan's remarkable trek to Yankee Stadium
Jane Lang is a hard-core Yankees fan.
For more than 200 games, she has made the 3-hour trek from home to Yankee Stadium by herself.
Jane has also been blind since birth.
CNN's Rob Marciano profiles a Yankees fan who won't let anything get in the way of seeing her favorite team.
Freed New York Times journalist: 'We were in survival mode'
Lynsey Addario was one of four New York Times journalists captured by Gadhafi's forces in Libya on March 15.
Addario was beaten and sexually assaulted before ultimately being released on March 21. A photographer, Addario has worked in the Muslim world for 11 years. Lynsey Addario and her husband Paul de Bendern, India Bureau Chief for Reuters, talk to Ali Velshi about what they went through.
MLB contest winner to live in 'Fan Cave,' watch over 2,400 baseball games
Mike O'Hara's new job is the envy of most baseball fans. O'Hara is the winner of an MLB contest to live in the MLB "Fan Cave" and watch every single baseball game of the 2011 season– more than 2,400 games in total. O'Hara talks to American Morning about his new gig.
Follow Mike O'Hara on Twitter at @mikeyoh21 and second place winner Ryan Wagner at @rwags614. You can also follow MLB for the latest from the Fan Cave at @MLBFanCave and at Mlbfancave.com.
Food Columnist Mark Bittman protests budget cuts by fasting for four days
Mark Bittman, New York Times Food and Opinion Columnist, has just concluded a four-day fast.
Bittman stopped eating Monday as part of a national campaign to call attention to proposed budget cuts that would slash food assistance for America's poor. Bittman talks to Kiran Chetry and Christine Romans about his participation in the fast.
Missing Bronx Zoo cobra found in Reptile House
New York City residents can breathe a deep sigh of relief knowing the Bronx Zoo's missing cobra has been found.
The Egyptian Cobra, which had been missing for seven days, caused a media frenzy; the cobra immediately shot to superstardom on Twitter, garnering more than 200,000 followers. But the mystery of the missing cobra came to an end Thursday when Bronx Zoo workers found the elusive reptile in the zoo's Reptile House.
Jim Breheny is the Director of the Bronx Zoo and Senior VP of Living Institutions, Wildlife Conservation Society. Breheny talks to American Morning about the zoo's quest to find the missing cobra.
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