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Jeffrey the editor-in-chief of airlinerating.com, a website that reviews airline safety joining from perth, australia. good to have you. >> good evening, george. >> jeffrey, look, given the track record of boeing, this plane maker, obviously its disturbing news for many to hear this. how do you feel about how boeing and how the faa are handling this situation? >> look, certainly its another black eye for boeing at the moment and its not a good look. thats absolutely understandable from the trave...

A local government official on reunion island seth they may have found -- they have found, rather a metal object of interest on the beach. this is the same remote island in the indian ocean where a piece of wing was discovered just last week. so far, officials are not offering any more information on this new object that was found. the malaysian transport minister says the part that was found a few days ago is definitely from a boeing 777. that is the same type of plane that is used by malaysia ...

A crash. searchers later found the wreckage along with four bodies. an indonesian ship has found two large pieces of metal believed to be from the wreckage of airasia flight 8501. authorities say the objects are about 30 meters underwater in the java sea. rough seas however, are keeping teams from sending a remotely operated vehicle to try to get pictures of these objects. well that new debris and oil slick spotted off the coast of borneo may mean that searchers are getting close to finding th...

Officials have addressed the long security lines at chicagos midway airport sunday. a reporter says the line was almost 2 kilometers long at one point. and for our american audience, that is just over a mile long. the tsa says it did not open checkpoints early enough, even though more passengers would be coming through. it also says stopping was less than anticipated. the sunday after thanksgiving is one of the busiest travel days of the year in the united states. well, if you can get through ...

I want to bring in jeffrey thomas. hes an aviation expert and editor in chief of airlinerating.com. he joins us via skype from perth. so nice to see you this morning. do you think investigators are confident they know where that plane is? >> christine, i think theyre very confident indeed, although theyre tampering that by saying they weed to find some debris before theyre absolutely certain. but there are a number of factors here, first of all, the search line that theyre examining that the "oc...