American says it will work on seats on more planes

Published October 13, 2012 12:01am ET



DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines says it will modify seats on 49 more planes to prevent rows of seats from coming loose during flight.

It’s addressing the same problem that caused the airline to ground 48 planes last week — the seat rows aren’t locking properly into tracks on the floor.

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