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They reported that an offduty pilot was able to step in instructing them to shut off the automatic flight control system. the jet was cleared to fly the next day. >> i can't understand why wasn't test flown. >> reporter: and the chairman of the safety agency just wrapped a press conference confirming some of those details about the doomed lion air flight back in october, but disputing reports about the conversations that were captured on the cockpit voice recorder, including that reuters report that the plane's crew scoured the flight manual and pray dollars in the minutes before the crash. er...

Separately, boeing is now saying it will install an extra safety light in the cockpit of all it's 737 maxes. previously, the manufacturer had charged extra for the safety feature which involves wiring not just one but both angle of attack sensors to the flight control system. that allows the pilot to compare both sensor readouts for any anomaly between the two. we know if all the angle of attack sensor had been replaced on the lionair max 8 the day before it crashed. it was bad data from a single sensor that led to the cascading series of events that doomed the plane. lastly, as if boeing need...

Cockpit voice recorder desperately trying to pull up the nose of the jet. seemingly unaware that the plane's compute wares causing the dives, reuters reports that the pilots frantically scoured the operations manual then said a short prayer before plunging into the sea. day before the crash, the same plane had the same problem. indonesian authorities confirmed that an offduty pilot who was riding in the cockpit was able to step anyone instructing crew to shut off the flight control system. after being sent to maintenance, the jet was cleared to flight next day. >> i can't understand why at lea...

>> shepard: the lion air crash happened on october 29th of last year. a monday. the day before that crash on sunday, the same plane was flying along and had huge problems. an off duty pilot saved every one on board the boeing 737 max 8. that's what sources familiar with telling bloomberg news. the extra pilot was off duty just riding along, in the cockpit with the pilots and told the crew how to disable the flight control system, thereby stopping the plane from diving into the scene. and then monday, the next day with a different crew. didn't know about this apparently. the jet malfunctioned a...

The xfinity store is here. and it's simple, easy, awesome. stunning revelations reported by bloomberg news about the first of two boeing 737 max8 crashes. the day before the crash of a lion air 737 max 8 back in october there were different pilots flying that same plane and they fought to control it as it went into a dive. there was a third pilot when just happened to be there. he was off-duty, and he was in the cockpit jump seat. he figured out that this was the malfunctioning flight control system, and he helped the crew get out of the dive according to two sources in this bloomberg report...