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Seat repairs causes America Airlines to cancel flights

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    Anna Kooiman reports from New York

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American Airlines say the -- being taken out of the -- they canceled dozens of flights they're scrambling to fix the rows of seats in the planes that could pop loose.

-- -- -- -- When -- 30000 feet up -- -- live in New York City with this story for less money and -- -- -- Martha with a loose seats issue is adding to travel stress for thousands of passengers.

American Airlines has canceled 44 flights today in fifty flights yesterday.

While making repairs to dozens of their Boeing 750 sevens today federal officials are continuing its safety investigation.

Involving the nation's third largest airline regarding seats coming -- It's happened three times in the last week to 750 sevens belonging to American Airlines.

Now initially Americans said the problem stemmed from a faulty clamp that holds the rows of seats to tracks on the floor of the aircraft.

Then yesterday American said the -- seats are a result of pins popping out of -- because of a combination -- -- and care for designing even soda spilling into the tracks.

American Airlines is apologizing for the inconvenience and says the safety of their customers and crew is their top priority.

-- of the FA we quickly came over additional locking mechanism.

They'll adding another level of redundancy to assure the -- stay in place the additional redundancy would go in law actually we made iron and another level of security cover.

And American says the 48 planes involved will be back in the lead by Saturday Martha.

So this is just the latest problem really for the parent company of American Airlines right and -- you're absolutely right flight cancellations and delays spiked in September for American Airlines parent company AMR corporation.

American put the blame on a slowdown by pilots who are upset that American canceled their labor contract.

AMR corporation is operating in bankruptcy protection and trying to fight a takeover by US Airways group incorporated.

Guys to the loose seats issue none of the other airlines have reported similar problems Martha Hanna thank you very much -- story.

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