the reports with john goglia, who has more than 40 years of experience in the aviation industry, includingappointee to the national transportation safety board. now retired, goglia remains a respected figure in the aviation industry, and occasionally testifies as an expert witness on safety issues. >> goglia: there's another one, engine fire. >> kroft: we wanted to know what he thought of allegiant's 60 unscheduled landings and 46 in-flight emergencies. i mean, is that common for an airline of this size? >> goglia: very, very high for an airline of this size. i hate to make comparisons, but we've seen that before, in airlines that are no longer with us, that had experienced a number of accidents and killed a bunch of people. i don't want to repeat that. so i try to push on allegiant to-- to-- clean up their operation. >> kroft: what do those reports say about allegiant? >> goglia: well, just the service difficulty reports say that somebody's not paying attention. >> kroft: you're a former member of the n.t.s.b. would you fly on an allegiant plane? >> goglia: i have encouraged my family, my

board member and aviation consultant john goglia believes the engine's containment rings may have failed. >> whatever happened inside that negine exceeded that technology and that protection. and the pieces came out of the rygine at a very high rate of speed. >> reporter: southwest has a very good safety record with only 17 accidents incidents since it was founded in 1967. that includes a similar engine failure in august of 2016. were, a flight from new orleans to orlando was forced to make an emergency landing in pensacola after the casings surrounding ae of the its engines tore away and left a five by 16 inch hole just above the wing. still, engine failures are very rare. >> and maybe they're related to that previous event, and maybe they're not. but we need to understand what's going on here. >> glor: and kris is inside the philadelphia airport ionight. kris, what else do we been the safety record of this engine? >> reporter: well, jeff, this is a very widely used airplane .ngines. the maker says it's on about s,700 aircraft. it's logged 350 million flight hours since it was developed

john goglia, thank you for joining us, we appreciate. coming days and weeks and i'm sure glad to listen to some of what you said and as we go forward. one more quick question as people go out to airplanes, can they feel assured that the right actions are being taken? >> right now i believe we are going in the right direction. everybody -- everybody will be looking at fan blades every chance they get. >> all right, thank you, we appreciate it. thank you for joining us and talking about this. i know a lot of people are keeping a close eye on it. connell: about to wrap up a busy news hour as the nation says good-bye to barbara bush, our coverage of that event will continue at the top of the hour as well as other breaking developments of the day, political and otherwise but we thank you for joining us, eric sean and arthel neville will take over at the top. >> and i will see you at 7:00. so, what's new? we just switched to geico and got more. more? they've been saving folks money for over 75 years. a company you can trust. geico even helped

. >> reporter: we shared the reports with john goglia.ired, goglia remains a respected figure in the aviation industry and occasionally testifies as an expert witness on safety issues. >> here's another one. engine fire. >> reporter: we wanted to know what he thought of the 60 unscheduled landings and 46 in-flight emergencies. >> is that common for an airline of this size? >> very, very high. i hate to make comparisons, but we receive that before with airlines that are no longer with us that have experienced a number of accidents and killed a bunch of people. i don't want to repeat that, so i try to push on allegiant to clean up their operation. >> what do those reports say about allegiant? >> just the service difficulty reports say somebody's not paying attention. >> you're a former of the ntsb. would you fly on an allegiant plane? >> i've encouraged my family, my friends, and myself not to fly on allegiant. >> reporter: we wanted to ask allegiant's ceo maurice gallagher on all of this. what they gave us instead was a message from their