One estimate shows some 120-thousand cars were traded in under the Cash for Clunkers program.

A lot of you have written in asking if those trade-ins are not supposed to go back out on the road where do they go?

You are about to get your answer.

A 15-year-old Los Angeles girl has reason to brag today. She recently set an aviation record and is looking to do many more. Kimberly Anyadike is believed to be the youngest African-American girl to pilot a plane cross-country. She spoke to Kiran Chetry on CNN’s “American Morning” Wednesday.

Kiran Chetry: I was amazed when I read about your story. You flew 7,000 miles. You flew from Compton, California all the way to Newport News, Virginia, and back again all in 13 days. What was that like taking on such a huge undertaking in the sky?

Kimberly Anyadike: It was so amazing. All the people I met, all the people I got to socialize with. I even made a couple new friends – even meeting some of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen. It was such an exhilarating experience for me.

Chetry: With you on that flight was your instructor, Levi Thornhill. He's 87-years-old. He was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. How did you get to know him? What was your connection and why was it so important to you have to him there? And, as I understand it, 50 other Tuskegee Airmen signed your plane.

Anyadike: Well, I had a safety pilot, his name is Ronell Normal. But Mr. Thornhill sat behind me and he never complained once. But he was such a motivational person. He's a mentor to me. I met him after I joined the program about two years ago and the plane that I flew is dedicated to him. So I thought it was a good chance to give honor directly to him.

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A Southwest Airlines jet made an emergency landing in Charleston, West Virginia, on Monday after a football-sized hole in its fuselage caused the cabin to depressurize, an airline spokeswoman said.

There were no injuries aboard the Boeing 737, which was traveling at about 34,000 feet when the problem occurred, Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis told CNN.

Ben Berman is a pilot and former chief investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. He spoke to Kiran Chetry on CNN’s “American Morning” Tuesday.

Kiran Chetry: Most of us can't imagine what it would be like up there, 34,000 feet and then realize there's a hole in the cabin. What did you think when you heard about this?

Ben Berman: Well, my first thought was – here we go again. And I was thinking back to an incident that occurred back in 1988 when an Aloha Airlines jet lost the whole top of the fuselage. That was a very massive failure. One person was killed. Everybody was left sitting out in the open. That was worse than a skylight. In any case I thought of that and I also thought of the recent events where a couple years ago Southwest Airlines was fined for not doing inspections like the aging aircraft inspections of the fuselage for cracks that are mandated right now as a result of the Aloha Airlines event.

Chetry: And what did they figure out about the Aloha Airlines plane that may help out in this situation?

Berman: Well, they figured out you need a whole focus on airplanes as they get older, because airplanes are being flown in airline service much longer than originally anticipated. And that focus on aging aircraft has developed throughout the worldwide airline industry and resulted in a lot of good inspections and good maintenance procedures to keep these flying safely. And I thought, well, this is going to have to be another look at it and we’ll see what caused this football-sized hole in the fuselage to develop and may require some different inspections or new inspections – also to see whether the airline was doing the inspections they should have been doing.

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The exact cause of the DC Metro crash is still unknown. Part of the cause could be faulty control circuits and authorities are asking, are some of the cars just too old to be on the tracks? CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports.