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To control the plane in the flight simulator. in one message he tells a colleague, and im quoting, granted, i suck at flying but even this was egregious. now, here is the second alarming point. this system was meant to operate in the background. boeing told the faa that pilots didnt even know about it to safely fly the plane, but engineers over time at boeing ended up making this system way more powerful. boeings pilot only learned about it during flight simulator testing. so here is what that p...

Stabilization system, one pilot writes, granted, i suck at flying, but even this was egregious. then about the simulator, its running rampant in the sim on me. pilot also expresses concerns he unknowingly misled the faa. a co-worker then assures him it wasnt a lie. no one told us that was the case. we should note the system was left out of the pilot manual. a cnn safety analyst, former faa safety inspector, and co-author of "why planes crash" joins us. david, good to see you. lawmakers and faa a...

Denver. >> hi, jon. this information comes from a text exchange between two boeing pilots, one of whom was responsible for communicating with the federal aviation administration as boeing was trying to receive certification from regulators for the 737 max. the messages reveal a problem with the automated system used on the plane. in one text, mark forkner, the chief technical pilot, tells another about its behavior in the simulator texting quote its running rampant in the sim on me so i basicall...

Nbcs stephanie gosk now with late details. >> reporter: two deadly crashes overseas 346 died, and tonight more evidence that boeing was aware of the problem with the anti-stall system on the 737 max and didnt tell the faa or airlines that fly the plane. in these messages from 2016 obtained by nbc news, two test pilots working for boeing write about problems with the mcas system two years before the first fatal crash in indonesia. its running rampant in the sim on me, writes the former chief test...

Including a tail wind. tom? >> thank you. and new messages between boeing test pilots suggest the company may have been aware of problems with its 737 max jets before two fatal crashes. the company has turned those text messages over to the department of transportation. heres abcs alex perez. >> reporter: those newly revealed messages between boeing 737 max test pilots shows that even they were surprised at how the automated system dramatically took control of the aircraft. its running rampant...

The 737 max. they didnt tell the faa or airlines that flight the plane. in these messages from 2016 obtained by nbc news, two test pilots working for boeing write about problems with the mcas system in the flight simulator two years before the first fatal crash in indonesia. its running rampant in the sim on me, writes the former chief test pilot mark forkner. the other pilot responds, oh, great. that means we have to update the trim description. forkner writes, so i basically lied to the regula...

In the background. boeing originally told the faa that pilots didnt even need to know about this system in order to fly the plane safely, but in the end, engineers ended up making this automated system way more powerful and boeings pilots only learned about it during the flight simulator testing. heres a second portion of the conversation. and it says -- its running rampant in the sim on me so i basically lied to the regulators unknowingly. then his colleague then says, it wasnt a lie. no one to...

Secret sim saying he hasnt done enough to defend the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, ambassador yovanovitch. the thing here, even though frustrated hes tried to distance himself from this writ at large. seen him traveling keeping up, a continued busy schedule. visiting italy, visiting with the pope when kurt volker testified. current ambassador on the with pen. h pence and doesnt want to get intimately involved in the situation and has done a number of interviews but avoids the specific questions. h...

Three 46 people. the ncas system is said by investigators to have sent both planes into unrecoverable nose dives. two years before the first of those crashes, faulkner apparently messaged his colleague saying of the auto system "its running rampant in the sim" meaning simulator and adding" granted i suck at flying but this is egregious." faulkner admits to misleading the faa saying "i basically lied to the regulators unknowingly." those messages are from november 2016. the faa confirmed they wer...

Others, how powerful did you only boeings chief pilot what pain? think that their testimony but in charge of the 737 max was and before you answer program when it was going that heres what the through the faa its what gives audible themembers an edge.listening; president said about these certification process. his messages clearly show diplomats. watch. it opens our minds, >> i dont even know these the company was aware of changes our perspective, major problems with the m people. for the most p...