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>> -- about it and had a third accident, that would be catastrophic financially and reputation wise. my point is there simply isnt enough evidence and, yes, youre correct about the software change to the flight control computer. that was discovered as a result, so far, of the lion air investigation. but that in and of itself, theres no proof to indicate that that had a big role to play in the accident. that investigation isnt finished. >> right. thats what we need to know. i hear you on that. th...

Safety all the time. i cant tell you how many times ive investigated things. you talk about putting the doubt in peoples minds about safety. heres another doubt thats going to be in peoples minds, money, jeff. theyre going to think if youre not taking these planes out of the air its because of money because youve had two guy down in five months, you have all these other countries and carriers who are taking it down. why not you? >> i think the incentive of how much it would cost if faa or boeing...

That aircraft, and they were unable to rectify the fault, and unable to protect those on board. technical faults followed by pilot error. the flight control computer appears to be key. we understand that there was a cracking of a solder joint, and there were four alerts that went off, four master cautions, which is alarms trying to alert prielts priel pilots in the plane. what they tried to do, according to that report is to reset the computer, but then there was an electrical fault. so that dis...

Prevent recurrence. for example, on this transcript you hear the words, terrain, pull up. that is issued by a system called a terrain awareness warning system. the first one was established by honeywell known as enhanced ground proximity warning system. the airplane particularly this airplane has automated functions preventing the pilot from stalling the plane. if this system senses approaching terrain and impending crash, it would be relatively easy to bring in the flight control computer basic...

It can hit the automatic pilot. it will take you right to where your destination is, right? >> that is all correct. and i dont want to discount anything yet because we dont have any proof to the contrary. but the pilot doesnt need the flight control computer to fly. so all of this stuff about having to change way points and reprogramming, that is nice, not necessary. >> it is not necessary, but information we have was telling us it was altered on the computer. so that means it was done by somebo...

And the data that was relayed up to the satellite, according to the folks we talked, to indicates this was a manually -- a manual direction to the flight control computer. i want to answer maybe your other question, why are they searching in the indian ocean more than 3,000 square miles. the last signal that was received from the aircraft to the satellite was over the indian ocean. so theyre starting their search based on the assumption that something happened from that point of view. we should ...