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Crashes. which boeing now admits its flight control system played a role in for four months, lawmakers and victims' family have been demanding the resignation and many analysts are surprised he wasn't fired sooner. >> you have a major corporation that handled the crisis badly, didn't demonstrate how they would move past it, and it's logical the board is going to want a clean slate because there's going to be a big mess they are going to have to deal with. >> boeing announced its suspending construction of the 737 max. the company took another hit when its new starling or spacecraft was forced ...

For the plane to be extended for that problem to be resolved as the company can fill those orders. several u.s. airlines have pulled the 737 max from their schedule for the foreseeable future, united announcing it's not going to fly the max plane until june, the plane has been grounded worldwide as a second crash involving a max plane in ethiopia last march, investigators found in both of the crashes the flight control system that push the nose of the plane down in a sense of that triggered that were at least partly to blame for the crashes. there is evidence boeing knew about those problems b...

It'll come back. there are others who say this plane may not fly again, and airbus may take the lead, and the chinese will, in ten years, be a power in commercial aviation, and, boeing, it may be too late. what do you think? >> well, right now all signs point to u.s. regulators going forward and approving the fix for the max and some other related matters. by february or perhaps later. again, there is no timeline, and that's been the issue all year. but the fix for mcas itself, the mcas being the flight control system that has been implicated in both these accidents, has basically been done fo...

Fired a week after the company plans to suspend production of the 737 max. the airplanes were grounded last year after two crashes killed 346 people. thank you so much for joining me. he has been under fire for quite some time. why is he getting fired now? >> it's been one thing after the next for dennis mullenberg. he and the rest of boeing have painted a rosy picture that the 737 that the mcast the automated flight control system that's at the center of the investigation of those crashes would be fixed and that the 737 would be fixed and return to service. earnings call month after month,

The recent max accidents is completely unfounded. mr. pierson raises issues about the production of the 737 max, yet none of the authorities investigating these accidents have found production conditions in the 737 factory contributed in any way to these accidents. what do you say to that? >> well, i respectfully disagree. without investigating a factory where two brand new airplanes were built you can't make a statement like that. i would refer boeing back to the final accident report. there's mention repeatedly in the report of airplane issues with the flight control system, maintenance mess...