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This will be extremely worrying because that is exactly what was happening with lion air, flight control problems, the ability to fly the aircraft, for inputs to be registered. and it would appear that was the issue or seems to be what is happening here. he told me that the data recorders will not be read out in ethiopia as the country doesn't have the technology. instead it will be sent elsewhere probably europe he suggested would be suitable places. and on the issue of the pilots, did they know about -- obviously they knew about what happened with lion air. had they been retrained? they were...

Ethiopian aircraft had 200 hours of flying time, compared to a minimum of 1500 hours for u.s. first officers. the flight and voice data recorders have been recovered. ethiopian, cayman airways, and china have granted the max 8 but neither the boeing, the faa or domestic carriers united, american, or southwest have. in december boeing took a risk, opening a finishing facility in china, the world's largest growing airplane market. the first plane to roll out of the facility was a 737 max 8. shannon bream >> shannon: doug mckelway, thank you very much. progressives, different views, want to do ab...

That statement says in part -- >> this boeing 737 maxx 8 is a bigger design. the engines necessitated a redesign of the plane's trim control system. when you turn the trim control off and the plane's two switches by your thigh and power it up, it causes a different reaction than the other models of the 737. >> when you apply full power to the airplane, it's going to drive the nose up. so what boeing did to counter that is they automated it. >> the first officer in the ethiopian air crash had 200 hours of flying time. compare that to a minimum of 1,500 hours for u.s. first officers. the flight ...

The plane is powered up it causes a different reaction than an earlier models. >> when you apply full power to the airplane, it's going to drive the nose up. so, what boeing did to counter that is they alternated it. >> if the trim switch is turned off or malfunctioning a poorly trained pilot might have problems overcorrecting for the nose up with the pitch down it can produce what's called pilot induced oscillation as scene? nasa video. the officer in the air crash had 200 hours of fly time compared to a minimum of 1500 hours for u.s. first officers. the flight and voice data recorders have b...

The pings they detected are coming from the flight reporters. the brand new boeing is missing after it plunged into the sea, killing all 189 people on board. they have found debris, personal belongings of the victims. ivan watson is joining us now from the main port in jakarta where search and rescue workers are bringing back debris from the plane. when do investigators think they'll be able to retrieve the flight recorders, the data recorders? >> reporter: they say they're very confident that that ping they're hearing every second, wolf, is the underwater location beacon of the flight data re...