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Jets will be grounded until next year, as the company tries to work on a fix for its flight software. the planes grounded in march after two deadly crashes overseas. and christine coleman has more from our west coast bureau. christina? reporter: hi, jon, well boeing is hopeful they will have the planes back in the air before the end of the year but based on repeated delays and technical challenges industry insiders are skeptical and fixes to the 737 max jet have faced repeated set backs includin...

Repeated setbacks include flight control problem that was uncovered last month unrelated to faulty system that led to the two deadly crashes in indonesia and ethiopia, total of 346 people died, the max was grounded around the world in mid-march after the crash in ethiopia, meantime boeing says it plans to answer any outstanding questions that the faa or global regulators might have to ensure the planes safety, some carriers had given up on flying troubled jet, southwest airlines which has more m...

The next crew that flew and crashed the 737 max 8 was never briefed about the anti-stall system. what is unclear, if the previous crew was lucky enough to have the jump seat pilot ever mention the incident or if for some reason it was never passed along to the next pilot. >> shepard: according to a new report, were learning more about what was happening inside the lion air cockpit before the plane went down. >> right. the cockpit voice recorder confirms the pilots of the doomed lion air flight h...

Flying it to the boeing yard in arizona where aircraft that are old are stored. it cast carrying a cargo load of some sort. the load could have shifted. if you have something in the front seat of a car and hit the gas hard and the package goes to the back. something like that could have happened that would cause the plane to become unflyable. its called a load transfer. there also could have been a flight control problem that caused the aircraft to pitch down. or even some sort of power issue wh...

We dont have passengers. were not trying to get revenue. so it is different in that regard. but its monsoon season. i dont know what picture -- look at the picture youre seeing right now. that picture i would have either gone south or gone a different route. but again, i dont know what the pilot -- so im being a little harsh in guessing because i dont know what weather picture the pilot saw. but that is not a good picture. those are very severe thunderstorms. what i do know is that airplane went...

The original turn-back was towards the closest available airport, so that makes sense. so the initial part actually makes sense, some sort of catastrophic problem. >> when you say catastrophic, you dont mean instantaneous, you mean mechanical issues on board that the pilot had time to try to make that turn to try to find the closest airport. >> sure. yeah, some sort of progressive problem like smoke in the cockpit if you had an electrical fire in the avionics bay or something like that, he would...

Problem like smoke in the cockpit if you had an electrical fire in the avionics bay or something like that, he would have turned to the nearest airport which would have made sense. under that hypothesis if they became incapacitated or if there was a flight control problem. if there was a flight control problem, they still would have had the radio, so its hard to figure out. what really doesnt make sense on that, though, was if they did become incapacitated and the airplane was flying along, it w...

Control problems. the way it got to the final end game, almost landing successfully, doesnt appear to be a flight control problem. so i was quite surprised to hear the ceo say that. >> shannon: how long do you think -- you say the ntsb may know pretty quickly. how long do you think tell take? how critical are the pilot interviews? do the pilots have to talk to them? >> the pilots have to talk to them. its an accident investigation. they will because the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice...