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Of the interview public confidence has been hurt. so how does the public know that boeing has done enough to actually fix this for good when it is this same agency certifying that this time around? again, its just going to be boeing and the faa saying we are good to go. >> well, thats a really good point, poppy, because its omitted from the interview. anything to do with whats going to happen tomorrw thats different than what happened yesterday. >> right. >> that is crucial. thats the point that...

We are getting a more detailed look at what happened in november when american airline pilots met with boeing, were shocked to learn this mcas system was on board that boeing didnt tell them about. shocked and furious to learn they were the backup and they told boeing how to fix it, set up the warnings, change the software and take the planes out of commission until it was done. boeing said, the plane is safe. we know what happened next. a second crash. dennis tazier with the pilots association ...

Boeing marketed the 737 max 8 airplanes as being similar to previous versions of the jet, despite the addition of a stability system. >> that system appears to be at the center of investigations into the deadly lion air and ethiopian crashes. pilots at two american carriers say that when they switched to the max 737, they were given a short self administered online course, but it didnt mention the new system. the federal aviation administration says that pilots were trained to hand him issues wi...

Strong criticism for not training the pilots in the simulator. there is what pilots use to train. its a full motion simulator. and the airline is being criticized for not using the simulator to train pilots about the new mcas system. as the chief executive told me, the first time they knew about mcas was after the lion air crash, the simulator theyve got for the aircraft doesnt replicate the fault andest i dont want -- and ethiopian airlines has done everything required by authorities. >> this i...

Report, what does this tell you, not just about the lion air crash, but potentially about the ethiopia air crash and about some of the other complaints that weve heard from pilots that have now come to light after both of these crashes? >> it does underscore the pilots concern that they were not trained properly on this new mcas system. the idea that it took a third person uninvolved with the crisis taking place to diagnose it is stunning and these guys were in a dire situation, but they were ab...

Cockpit, if that autopilot feature is doing anything out of the ordinary, if there seems to be bugs in the system, would you have easy access to a kill switch, like a self-driving car where you want to actually take the wheel? >> its a really complicated system i think exceedingly so, but its designed where -- if youre flying and this starts to happen, of course, first the autopilot has to be off. if the autopilots on, the system doesnt engage. with the autopilot off and your hand flying it, the...

Sure it is repaired and this is going to make lion air review their safety procedures. >> you said the fix was buried in the flight manual. so it is in the flight manual, is that right? >> im saying, how you shut off the mcas system is in the flight manual. >> you have to make that cognitive leak. >> and you have to make the analysis. to that point, reuters is now reporting from the voice recorder in the lion air flight that the pilots were scouring the flight manual. this is what -- as the plan...

But here it appears that there was a one fail point, this mcas system, and so theyre going to be looking at what were the statistics? how many failures were predicted? was it one in 30,000 or one in 10 million? or 1 in 100,000? and 1 in 100,000 event happens every other day in aviation, theres just so much flying. >> mary, always appreciate your insight. theres been so much made too we should point out the similarities between the ethiopian and lion air flight. i want to get in our statement fro...

Delve into regulatory approval of a commercial airliner. separately, the black boxes are revealing some initial filings point to similarities between the ethiopian crash and lion air crash the day before. the mcas system lower the pitch in the stall. turned on. force the nose down just in the lion air crash. but in the lion air crash, we also know that the mas was acting on bad data from a malfunctions sensor indicates the planes pitch and angle of attack. boeings ceo says boeing is finalizing d...

Direct live after the lion air crash with the same style and jet model. and warned of faulty sensors that could make it hard for pilots to control the airplane. the ceo of ethiopian airlines said his pilots were briefed on the directive. should that have been enough for boeing max 8 pilots to know what to do if they encountered this problem? >> well, it should have been. the system that were talking about, the mcas system takes its data from two sensors in the front of the airplane. if theres a ...