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To immediately know, we have to do this. >> well, there were a seeries o reports out there that didn't lead to crashes. that's an anonymous reporting system run by nasa and it is purposeful so the pilots feel comfortable reporting and realize the faa won't lower the boom on them. there were several incidents of autopilot problems where the aircraft did just that. there's a recurring pattern here. put it this way. imagine if the lion air crash was an engine falling off or a wing falling or or some mechanical hardware thing, that plane would have been grounded pretty quickly, right? it was softw...

Faa said, we have potentially a problem with the software, we need to fix it. faa said, okay, well, we will fly the airplanes, we'll do it by april. well, they identified a fleet-wide problem that could be catastrophic and could lead to deaths and they didn't ground the planes at that point. you could make an argument that that was the time to ground the planes and fix it. >> and i've been asking this question, this is great to have you. i'm so -- i'm not happy about any of this, but this is good. my suspicion is that if you knew you needed a software upgrade as soon as that lion air jet went ...