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Boeing engineers that hopefully have the same mind for soviet as they do for the success of their product. >> reporter: the aircraft certification processes are well established and consistently produce safe designs. with boeing and the faa under intense scrutiny and a grand jury investigation, the secretary of transportation today called for the inspector general to investigate the certification process. boeing is promising to cooperate. captain sulli says sometimes faa inspectors who raise safety concerns are overridden by faa managers. meanwhile, the white house is nominateing a new permane...

Indonesian crash. >> i'm going to ask les in a moment to explain why people should feel okay about flying on these planes or not and what a pilot needs to know but i want to ask jeff, because jeff wrote in an article covering this an explanation that i think is easy to understanding. boeing engineers had to move the point where the plane attaches to the wing. this affected the way the plane handled. most alarmingly it left the plane with a tendency to pitch up which could result in an aerodynamic stall. to prevent this, boeing added a new auto pilot system that would pitch the nose down if it ...

And they will be able to tell if this is an aircraft seat or not. everything else would have to float. i did see online from reunion island somebody posted a picture of the window parts. it did look like it could be a window part but, again -- and there's just so much trash in the ocean, it's difficult to know if that would be it for sure. it has to meet exacting specifications. boeing engineers will know whether that is a part or not. it may not have a serial number on the window part. it could be what's called a standard part. so yes, they should be skeptical unless and until tested and full...

Centrofuge is moving in the middle of the ocean. >> so what the french minister is saying, the transport minister is saying, is that aircraft seat cushions and window panes have been founded in the same area. could they be something else? i mean, aircraft seat cushions are pretty distinctive. >> they are pretty obviously to people who study fabric. there are a lot of things that have fabric on them, just like a boat cushion. but until experts meet again, once again it's boeing, until the boeing engineers take a look at them and, in this case, they'll have to test them most likely to make sure ...

I'm joined by tom costello. what do we know now? >> we have looked at the still photograph which shows the part number on this particular wing flap that we saw yesterday in which boeing engineers have already said is one of theirs. the part number is indeed from what is called a animaleron. a wing flap come possibly that helps the wing maintain a bank if it is at a high altitude. and then of course it allows it to slow down and make an approach. the bottom line is they know pretty conclusively, this a boeing 777. there is only one missing. if this has been in the salt water all this time, is t...