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There may have been -- i dont even think there was negligence, i just think that the actions we took were inadequate for the problem we were facing. -i think there was a mindset and sort of a hope that weve seen foam strikes before and its never caused a safety of flight issue. so, were assuming thats the case here, but not a sure thing. it seemed like by staying ignorant of the degree of damage, the mission management team perhaps didnt want to know about the worst-case scenario. -at this point...

So, its difficult for us to believe as engineers, as management and as a team, that this particular piece of foam debris shedding from the tank represented a safety of flight issue. -i caught some segment that ron got into in which he said in a declarative voice... -right now, it just does not make sense to us that a piece of debris would be the root cause for the loss of columbia and its crew. theres got to be another reason. -well, how can he say that? where is he getting that from? what a big...

And i think weve made some foam available to you so that you can get an understanding of the composition of this material. Its very lightweight, which is logical. You would want it to be lightweight because the more weight you put on the tank, the less upmass you could launch into an orbit. So, its difficult for us to believe as engineers, as management and as a team, that this particular piece of Foam Debris Shedding from the tank represented a safety of flight issue. I caught some segment that...

It didnt hit the orbiter, so it was no effect to the flight. The management team, they analyzed it and came up with the conclusion that no safety of Flight Issue existed. We dodged a bullet on that one. Heres your warning, and you only get one. A special team was forming, and i was told that i would be on it. The Mission Management wanted to know how bad is it no damage, minimal Damage Or Grave damage. In that room on the first meeting, there were probably 12 to 15 people. They were the best exp...

I wouldnt say malfeasance, but negligence. There may have been i dont even think there was negligence, i just think that the actions we took were inadequate for the problem we were facing. I think there was a Mindset And Sort of a hope that weve seen foam strikes before and its never caused a safety of flight issue. So, were assuming thats the case here, but not a sure thing. It seemed like by staying ignorant of the degree of damage, the Mission Management Team perhaps didnt want to know about ...

Still safe to fly. pete mountain has the latest on the story, pete give us some details. victor m. ra. this is another bad look for boeing as it struggles to deal with quality control and rebuild the reputation of the 7 37 max those failures at boeing and with the systems inside each plane led to those two crashes abroad in 2018 and 2019 350 people killed. this new issue is different, though boeing is coming clean about a defect in the manufacturing of the jet itself. the issue, boeing says, is ...

Correspondent pete mountain, has the details. jim this is another bad look for boeing as it struggles to deal with quality control and rebuild the reputation of the 7 37 max. its best selling airplane right now failures at boeing and with systems inside each plane led to those two crashes abroad. but theres new issue is different. boeing is coming clean about a defect in the manufacturing of the jet itself. the issue, boeing says, is what they fitting in the rear part of the fuselage of some max...

That are manufactured by a third party. im boeing has not said exactly how many maxes are defective. even though there are about 1000 flying worldwide more than 300 in the us in a statement, boeing says this is not an immediate safety of flight issue and the in service fleet can continue operating safely. the faa, which ultimately came down hard on boeing after the investigations into those crashes in 2018, and 2019, says it has validated what boeing says is true and is monitoring next steps the...

Unidentified object over the yukon on saturday. >> it represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft so i gave the order to take it down. >> u.s. and canadian forces are now in recovery mode piecing together several objects that american fighter jets shot down. the u.s. downed an aerial object the size of a small car on friday over alaska. it landed on sea ice and crews are still working to get answers on who owned it and what it was. >> the predominant concern by the president was the saf...

Intelligence last night and by the morning he was saying shoot it down, was there something more specific about the threat than just generally being in the airspace at which the height of which -- >> the predominant reason, the predominant reason driving the presidents decision was the safety of flight issue. >> i understand that. but thats a really big area up there, theres not all that many planes. its not like it was middle of the northeast corridor. is there no way in which you could have sa...