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Wrong with the plane. but i dont think theres enough information that would have led them to this door, because this door has not been a problem in the past. its not been a problem with the prior version of the 737. so a big question is going to be how does it have a successful fleet in the 737 900, the extended range version, former version of the 737, and suddenly having all these problems in the max? so thats gonna be a big part of the investigation. >> youve dealt with some of these very ser...

Everybody on that board especially everyone around where the explosive decompression happen are probably having a nightmare is now. so, there is going to be some legal action, but they got off luckily. most importantly, the people on this airplane got off super lucky. >> look, the psychological impact to all of us. anytime something like this happens this very real, justin green, thank. you >> abby, thank you. >> i want to bring in jim hall, the former chairman of the ntsb. jim, how involved in ...

Ride up, which appears to be the mechanism in place here, and that air pressure willjust blow the plug out of the cabin, but it is a very good reminder as to why you should have your seat belt on up when youre in your seat if you dont need to be moving about. but thats quite a lot of force coming out of a cabin, even at that altitude, and obviously a cruising level, you can pretty much double that. so much force that the _ pretty much double that. so much force that the headset _ pretty much dou...

Munteen is following the story for us tonight. >> boeings ceo says the company is acknowledging its mistake. that and it just released an excerpt from the companys all hands safety meeting today. heres the issue. calhoun did not say exactly what that mistake is if anything, and now investigators are scrambling to get to the bottom of it. after fridays dramatic in flight blow out significant new findings by investigators and airlines are putting the spotlight on bolts in the boeing 737 max 9 desi...

United investigators found loose bolts and other door plug installation issues when investigating the airline's fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 9s.

Explosive decompression, and literally youre at risk of losing the aircraft whenever you have that happen. so it could have been a very -- you know, could have been a fatal accident. >> yeah. the vast majority of this model are in the u.s. and with just two airlines, i believe, alaska and united. but several dozen are flying in other countries. do you see more groundings globally? >> i think probably what will laep is theyll look to the united states and also order the inspections. now, any airl...

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The ceiling of the Boeing 737 was torn off, and a large section of its fuselage then followed, exposing passengers in the 96-foot cabin to the open sky.

>> i think its extremely unlikely based on at least the photograph. and its difficult to make conclusive determinations based on that photograph, but i would guess based on the kind of weapons that these folks have in the sinai, theyre more likely to actually have direct access to military-grade explosives. they could take a mortar shell, they could take an ied and simply take some of the explosives out of it and repurpose it. obviously, this must have been a very powerful explosive, because a s...

The controls as we had in the old planes with actual cables. its all electronics. and electronics are a lot easier to destroy than the cables. but still, the point being at 30,000 feet, you blow a hole in the side of the plane, which if a soda can is, in fact, the container, the plane comes apart by the explosive decompression. the plane is not going to continue to fly. >> thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> coming up, the story of a woman who chose to run toward the sound of the guns...