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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...

Question. what we know was that this off duty pilot dead heading, in other words catching a ride in that plane and sitting in the cockpit, when things started going bad in the cockpit and they couldnt understand why the plane was headed for a nose down position towards the ocean, that off duty cockpit said we need to turn off mcas, the software program weve been talking about for weeks suspected of being at the heart of the indonesian crash and ethiopian crash. he helped them turn off mcas and t...

A software upgrade to their jets to download and fix that problem was delayed by the shutdown. it was planned for next month. then came the ethiopian crash that grounded the planes around the world. alex, thank you for being here. i know in your piece about this lion air crash last year, you prescribe the plane system as getting bad data and making adjustments. i want to read for our view wares you had known. if the pilot had known the mcas was at all the, they could have shut down the planes ab...

Into their jersey. data from the lion air flight indicated pilots tried to override the safety system called a maneuvering characteristic augmentation system. investigators in both crashes believe the safest system malfunction. expert say the fix is not difficult. >> on monday the faa said they were planning an april to mandate a software upgrade. it would only take an hour and one presumes as soon as the software is uploaded you returned to service. >> the wall street journal reports once the s...

Disconnect the system, but when you are in a struggle like that, youre just trying to keep the thing from -- the stability is a huge factor. you may not have the time to do what you need to do. so, you know, this is so hauntingly parallel that it makes me think about that lion air incident. now, at that time boeing and the faa said, we have potentially a problem with the software, we need to fix it. faa said, okay, well, we will fly the airplanes, well do it by april. well, they identified a fle...

Faa said, we have potentially a problem with the software, we need to fix it. faa said, okay, well, we will fly the airplanes, well do it by april. well, they identified a fleet-wide problem that could be catastrophic and could lead to deaths and they didnt ground the planes at that point. you could make an argument that that was the time to ground the planes and fix it. >> and ive been asking this question, this is great to have you. im so -- im not happy about any of this, but this is good. my...

French aviation investigators. was -- if they are in good condition, >> jews will not replace it. it could take until saturday >> reporter: in 2017, some night, sunday to unpack the raw marchers carries banners that data and then it needs to be read, white europe and clean blood. analyzed to figure out what went wrong and what caused the crash. >> dozens of countries have 2015 in charleston, south grounded this boeing plane. carolina, a white teenager how long could the grounding murdered nine a...

Boeings 737 max 8." but just last night, boeing announced it would install a new software upgrade to those very same airlines and its flight control systems after the crash of another max 8 in october. so if theres truly no issue, why the software patch? software that goes to navigation, operational control, of the aircraft? why isnt that enough? lets discuss with people who know better than certainly i do. jeff guzzetti, former faa director of accident investigation. i told you id need you back...

Right now, were in a bizarre situation. the world, literally much of the world, has banned this boeing jetliner thats involved in the ethiopian airlines crash. and there was another one five months ago. the united states remains one of the few operators allowing it to fly. the faa says theres, "no basis to order the grounding of boeings 737 max 8." but just last night, boeing announced it would install a new software upgrade to those very same airlines and its flight control systems after the cr...

We do know that they are working on a software upgrade, update of some sort. but yet, the planes have been flying all along. theyve been working on this software upgrade for months. do you think thats going to be a liability? is that going to create legal trouble for them? >> my concern is, what is this software update supposed to fix? we dont know what it really is supposed to fix at this point in time. and my concern is that, will it fix what might have happened with lion air? will it fix what...