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I think some politics came into play here. where you have a sense of not getting in the way of boeing keeping these airlines flying and then you had two crashes. one in indonesia where no americans were killed and another one in ethiopia where only, you know, eight or so americans were killed. if this had happened in kansas, i think we would have acted a lot faster than we did. >> les, up until this moment, we know pilots unions were behind continuing to fly these aircraft. we know the faa, we k...

Aircraft. a database maintained by the federal government reveals several concerns here. one of them, quote, the flight manual is inadequate and almost criminally insufficient. still, the faa is standing by its decision to keep the jets in the air in the u.s., as is boeing, as is a number of airlines that use these jets. look at this. this is the live radar tracker for this specific type of jet, showing all of them over north and central america. pretty striking there. cnn aviation analyst justi...

>> that makes so much sense. it seems like a no-brainer. and what would have happened if this plane crashed in the u.s.? wouldnt actions have been different up until this point? >> i cant get into the minds of the faa, but yeah, im certain it would be. logic would dictate that. absolutely. and and you heard what tom foreman just said about the potential impact to travelers in terms of how many flights are going to be impacted now being on the ground. does that jive with what you know in terms of...

Together, its hard to say at this point. >> so, les, when you say youve also made complaints like these yourself, back in your days when youve been flying, and obviously, under different planes, because these are brand-new planes, so would these complaints have stood out, should they have stood out? would these have risen red flags? >> if i had written it in the maintenance logbook, yes, it would. these particular complaints were written to what they call an asap report. so nassau is actually th...