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Still safe to fly. pete mountain has the latest on the story, pete give us some details. victor m. ra. this is another bad look for boeing as it struggles to deal with quality control and rebuild the reputation of the 7 37 max those failures at boeing and with the systems inside each plane led to those two crashes abroad in 2018 and 2019 350 people killed. this new issue is different, though boeing is coming clean about a defect in the manufacturing of the jet itself. the issue, boeing says, is with a fitting in the rear part of the fuselage of some maxes. it's manual action by a third party. ...

Correspondent pete mountain, has the details. jim this is another bad look for boeing as it struggles to deal with quality control and rebuild the reputation of the 7 37 max. it's best selling airplane right now failures at boeing and with systems inside each plane led to those two crashes abroad. but there's new issue is different. boeing is coming clean about a defect in the manufacturing of the jet itself. the issue, boeing says, is what they fitting in the rear part of the fuselage of some max is manufactured by a third party. boeing is not said exactly how many are defective, though there...

That are manufactured by a third party. i'm boeing has not said exactly how many maxes are defective. even though there are about 1000 flying worldwide more than 300 in the us in a statement, boeing says this is not an immediate safety of flight issue and the in service fleet can continue operating safely. the faa, which ultimately came down hard on boeing after the investigations into those crashes in 2018, and 2019, says it has validated what boeing says is true and is monitoring next steps the contractor responsible for building these parts is a company called spirit aerosystems, and it jus...

Unidentified object over the yukon on saturday. >> it represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft so i gave the order to take it down. >> u.s. and canadian forces are now in recovery mode piecing together several objects that american fighter jets shot down. the u.s. downed an aerial object the size of a small car on friday over alaska. it landed on sea ice and crews are still working to get answers on who owned it and what it was. >> the predominant concern by the president was the safety of flight issue at that altitude. >> a lot of those who were critical of president biden shootin...

Intelligence last night and by the morning he was saying shoot it down, was there something more specific about the threat than just generally being in the airspace at which the height of which -- >> the predominant reason, the predominant reason driving the president's decision was the safety of flight issue. >> i understand that. but that's a really big area up there, there's not all that many planes. it's not like it was middle of the northeast corridor. is there no way in which you could have said, hey, airplanes, steer clear of this area until we know better what this thing is, because we...