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Investigations as well as the investigations on capitol hill that will lead to wherever it needs to lead. and we fully support those investigations. >> investigators believe a single sensor on the lion airplane that crashed in signature bondsia fed bat data to the onboard computer system suggesting it could stall. the computer forced the nose down as pilots fought to pull it up. investigators in ethiopia say that plane crash shows similar characteristics. but even after two fatal crashes in five...

Schilling for boeing products or saying bad things about the competitors of boeing at the defense department. >> a spokesman telling cnn shanahan welcomes the probe and has at all times remained committed to upholding his ethics agreement filed with the dod. >> do you support section investigation? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: meanwhile, new details are emerging about the final moments of the doomed lion air flight. reuters reports that the planes crew can be heard on the voice recorder desperatel...

Separately, boeing is now saying it will install an extra safety light in the cockpit of all its 737 maxes. previously, the manufacturer had charged extra for the safety feature which involves wiring not just one but both angle of attack sensors to the flight control system. that allows the pilot to compare both sensor readouts for any anomaly between the two. we know if all the angle of attack sensor had been replaced on the lionair max 8 the day before it crashed. it was bad data from a single...

Manually without my electric trim. >> reporter: in indonesia, even though the jump seat pilot apparently saved the day, and the problem was written up, the jet was put back into service the next day with a bad sensor, triggering that anti-stall system called mcas, forcing the nose down. during the accident flight, the pilots, according to bloomberg, while struggling with the aircraft, were going through their emergency checklist, but ran out of time, having never turned off the system. the jet c...

Want to. now, here are the two features "the new york times" is talking about, and i can tell you that this is accurate, in fact. the first one is called an angle of attack indicator, aoa indicator, and it literally is telling you what is the pitch of the aircraft, what is the nose doing, is it up or is it down. does it look like it is in a proper flying configuration but there are two sensors on the plane, two aoa sensors, angle of attack sensors, one on each side of the plane. what happened is...

Their lionair should should have never been ad to take off. sources say it should have been granted because the malfunctioning. that is the sensor, like a wind vane, outside a pilots window, that feeds a crucial data to the pitch control or mcas that has been the subject of so much controversy. the sensor was mistakenly telling the mcas to put the nose down, overwriting the pilots various attempts to pull up, to pull the plane up. as weve been reporting, the way to regain control is to flick two...

Determine whether the malfunctioning angle of attack sensor in that plane that crashed may have been one of those second hard parts. im told that indonesian investigators have not turned over all of their evidence to the ntsb. in records to the ethiopian crash, analysts are looking at the flight profiles. theres clear similarities to the up and down pitching motion of the max 8s. but now im told there are also key dissimilarities. investigators trying to determine what is behind those. boeing ha...

Pilot told the crew to cut power to that automatic system. still, the plane took off again. >> this is what i call the fly it and watch it kind of attitude. it should not have occurred here. it was replicatable. i cant understand why at least it wasnt test flown or brought out and tested again. >> it all raises troubling questions about the jet crash which authorities say looks a lot like the lion air disitsas. it was to rely on one sensor. why were they not and where was the federal aviation ad...

Safety issue on the exact same plane but an offduty pilot was able to disable the malfunctioning system and save the flight. cnns melissa bell is analyzing new reporting and what the pilots were doing in the moments before their death. >> reporter: this was all that was left of lion air flight 610 which crashed into the java sea last october. debris picked through by the families of some of the 189 people who died on board. at fault according to a preliminary report, an automated safety system o...

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