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Going to bring you the new information just minutes and our aviation experts will be here to talk about it. and today malaysian shah airlines after days of denial confirming that flight 370 was carrying highly flammable lithium batteries in cargo hold. what could that mean to the the administration. former administration pipeline safety administration also a pilot. he joins us. good evening, sir. >> hi, good evening, greta. >> well, the ceo of malaysia airlines sort of sat on this one for about four days. he knew about this cargo. of course we know there have been lithium batteries, a u.p.s....

Preestablished thing that goes on if you know that there is a fire on board? >> yes, there is, your previous guest i heard the tail end of that conversation. that's the way it operates. one pilot focuses on the airplane. the other pilot focuses on the checklist and they may share the communications, it just depends on the work load of the pilot working through the checklist at the time or trying to figure out, you know, plug it in a route to some place they want to go to quickly. and but those duties are -- the difference between who is going to do those duties is pretty well established, you ...

These are the charred remains of the battery that started the fire in boston two weeks ago and caused smoke damage to a flight. it's interesting. this 787 dream liner program was actually launched back in 2004 with an order from the airline, but their dream liners and everyone else's dreamliners have been grounded by governments around the globe. experts are saying the only way to get these planes air worthy again is to fix the faulty batteries. >> they can't switch out to other kinds of batteries. that would really add too much weight and they wouldn't be able to produce the amount of power n...

>> bill: just in to fox news tonight. this is video of the situation at miami's international airport where two planes have apparently touched on the runway there. the planes were an argentine as flight. no injuries reported and we don't know if the planes suffered any damage. we will stay on that this evening. airlines around the world following in the footsteps of the federal aviation administration and grounding boeing 787 dream liner. the f.a.a. made that call yesterday after a string of problems with the plane including an apparent battery leak that prompted emergency evacuation in japan....

Bill? >> dan is, there an incident occasion or do we know how long this could take boeing to get fixed? >> well, boeing has offered a quick, but temporary solution where the airlines would do more safety checks on those batteries. if that doesn't work, that doesn't get accepted, it could be a long time before the planes are back in the air. the battery manufacturer says it might take months to identify the problem. and then you figure months on top of that to fix it boeing continues to assemble new dream liners because the plane is so advanced there doesn't appear to be any simple answer. >> t...