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Brazilian airline carrier was forced to pay $6,700 extra for oxygen masks for its crew. then theres this. "the times" reports that as the pilots of the doomed boeing 737 jets in ethiopia and indonesia fought to control their planes they lacked two notable safety features in their cockpits. one reason? boeing charged extra for them. now, while its not yet known what caused the crashes, investigators are looking into whether a new software system might be partly to blame. faulty data from sensors ...

Optional safety features in part could have helped the pilots detect any erroneous readings. boeing says its software upgrade for the max fleet will be coming soon along with those safety enhancements. but todays reporting certainly makes you wonder, could a lot of lives have been saved if those safety features were standard to begin with? well be right back. ll be righ.

Number of countries that are now banning temporarily the max is growing. the united kingdom has just done it. it is highly like the europeans will do it before tea time. we know that norwegian the airline has also announced it is grounding the max fleet. >> when will the u.s. move? well be right back. different generations get the same quality of customer service that we have been getting. being a usaa member, because of my service in the military, you pass that on to my kids. something that mak...

And richard quest. richard, two crashes, brand-new aircraft, same exact model in less than five months. perfect weather in both cases. you say this is a full-blown crisis for boeing. >> oh, yes. oh, yeah. theres no doubt about that. its not there just were two new -- brand-new planes. it was the phase of flight when it took place, within the first 10, 12 minutes. there are similarities in the fluctuations in altitude in both cases. the pilots asked to turn back and declared they were having prob...

Families of the victims loss in the crash, many countries around the world are grounding their boeing 737 max 8 planes until they can be inspected and cleared for flying. china, indonesia, and the cayman islands dont tell my joint ethiopian taking this extra precaution. >> we have grounded all boeing 737 -- 8 max fleet. which was involved in yesterdays accident. as a precaution safety measure. >> harris, the biggest airline in the united states, american airlines, says they have full confidence ...