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With willfully destroying and wrecking an aircraft and attempting to do so. alani has not entered a plea. it happened at american airlines hub miami international airport on july 17th. according to the arrest affidavit the plane's tube, a key instrument was found loose. >> this is the peto tube. this is what drives the airspeed indicator so we know how fast we're moving through the air which is one of the more fundamental things about flying a plane. >> additionally, investigators say alani sub glued a part to disable it. the system controls aircraft speed, pitch and other critical data. >> yo...

According to the arrest affidavit, a key instrument was found loose. >> this is the pito tube. this is what drives our air speed indicator so that we know how fast we're moving through the air, which is one of the more fundamental things about flying a plane. >> reporter: additionally, investigators say alani superglued a piece of foam to a part of plane's navigation system to disable it. the system reports aircraft speed, pitch, and other critical data. >> you have to know how fast the plane is going to do a successful takeoff. it's a very dangerous malfunction. >> reporter: the pilots notice...

The faa does a very good job what they do. and they strictly look at data and facts. and as you know, the last major airline crash large cabin passenger plane on u.s. soil was shortly after september 11th so it's an impeccable safety record with the exception of the cold wynn crash which was a smaller aircraft. steve: kyle, as i remember, the first 737 max 8 crash involved this new system that they have put in m cast i think is the abbreviation for it in the plane that crashed five months ago, the sensors were damaged so the plane didn't know where it was. the computer was trying to drive the ...

That wouldn't happen if you have a problem with your instrumentation in the sock pco that you have a bad air speed indicator giving you false readings or that you had anening will i of attack variation. meaning that your instruments aren't telling you how the plane is positioned in the air, nose up, nose down, et cetera that. wouldn't cause smoke to emanate from the plane. but otherwise very similar. air speeds, phase of flight, just -- and a report from the pilot that they had mechanical problems. >> so some five months ago after the first crash, boeing actually sent out an emergency bulletin...

Thing that give you a lot of clues is what the pilots were saying to each other. if other pilots on the communications line heard something about an air speed indicator problem, that the two air speed indicators weren't matching or they had a problem with what they believe was a faulty air speed indicator, that's a huge clue right there. and the pilots most likely were struggling in the cockpit tryinging to do everything they can to save the plane. the things they tried in troubleshooting will be immediately apparent to the investigators, what they were trying to do. and the flight data record...