For the second time this week, American Airlines has had to ground flights because of loose seats on their plane. This has caused almost 100 flight cancellations on Thursday and Friday alone, NBC News reported.
The airline said they were taking care of the issue and NBC News reported that the loose airline seats were because of a number of issues including "gunk" from drinks that have gotten spilled.
Andrea Huguely said in a statement according to NBC News, "We have identified the issue and our maintenance teams are securing an FAA-approved locking mechanism to make sure no seat can be dislodged. All of our (Boeing) 757s will be back in service by Saturday."
Fifty flights were reportedly canceled on Thursday and Forty Five were canceled on Friday.
Monday was American's first grounding of a flight, 48 Boeing 757 after its seats came loose on three separate flight. Two of those flights had to make an emergency landing because of it.
NBC News reported that American Airlines had to ground half of its Boeing 757 planes on Thursday.
Another spokesperson said to NBC News of the seat problem that,
"There are a lot of contributing factors - normal wear and tear, gunk that can affect the locking-pin mechanism - whether its debris or sodas."
American is "installing mechanical installing mechanical ties to keep these seats in place on the 48 jets with this type of seat, as a backup in case the locking pin mechanism fails," NBC reported.
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