Another American Airlines flight was forced to return to Kennedy Airport today after a row of seats became loose following takeoff — the second such incident in three days.
It was also revealed today that a third flight — American Airlines flight 2206 from Vail, Colorado to Dallas, Texas — had issues with loose seats on Sept. 26, officials admitted.
Now, the struggling airline — which filed for bankruptcy protection in November — said that as many as eight planes could have seat problems.
The airline brought mechanics from its Tulsa maintenance base to New York to reinspect 757s that might have the same issue.
The Federal Aviation Administration has also launched a probe of the loose seats, which the Post first reported today.
The latest incident was on the Miami-bound Flight 433, which left Kennedy at 7:11 am. yesterday.
The plane was forced to return to New York less than an hour after takeoff because seats A, B, and C in row 14 began moving around mid-flight.
A similar incident on a Boston to Miami flight forced an emergency landing at Kennedy on Saturday.
The seats “became loose much like the flight that happened on Saturday,” said AA spokesman Mary Frances Fagan. “They seem to become loose on the track that holds them to the fuselage.”
The FAA said that the two planes “had recently undergone maintenance during which the seats had been removed and re-installed.