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>> now, according to the "the new york times," a piece of this boeing 737 they found shows the pilot may have been battling an automated system in the minutes before the crash. that information comes from two sources with knowledge of the operations. >> joining us now, cnn analyst oren liebermann. oren, good morning. what are you learning? >> reporter: the piece that the "the new york times" is talking about is what's called a jack screw. and it was found in the ethiopian airlines flight 302. the jack screw is the stabilizing at the tail of the airplane. and the position according to the "the ...

Flights out of the way of the ethiopian airline. david soucie is with me, former faa safety inspector and cnn safety analyst. good to see you. at issue according to "new york times" reporting is the stabilizers, stabilizers triggered by the ougautomated system. what do you know about that and if that's the real commonality here between the ethiopia airline jet and lion air jet. >> fred, it was suspected this was the problem before, that the end cast drove the nose down erroneously, it indicated to the system that the nose was climbing too quickly. it automatically pushes the nose down. this is...

So go directly to petmeds.com now. we could be closer to finding out what caused the crash of the boeing 737 over ethiopia last weekend. french investigators have successfully downloaded the voice box recorder. there's also this, the new york times is reporting investigators at the crash site recovered the plane's jack screw. a device that helps raise or lower the plane's nose. setting up a scenario similar to the october crash in independent nearby ya. this happening as the faa's inspection program is coming under renewed scrutiny. >> reporter: it may make no sense to you, but it's all abou...

Similarity in the flight tracks. they're found some information that's been released, i don't know that the f.a.a.'s released it, but it's come out with respect to the position of the jack screw on the aircraft. and the f.a.a. acts only on facts. they don't act on emotional reactions or sentiment in terms of what should be done. so, i think that they were waiting for the facts. if, in fact, they have the facts, that's fine in terms of taking action. if they acted, based upon anything other than that, either because everybody else was doing it or any other consideration, i think that's problema...

Black box and are doing extensive analysis at a lab in paris. >> air traffic controller -- the pilot mentioned he wants to play tough. >> reporter: family members continue to mourn at the site of the crash. earlier this week investigators discovered a jackscrew from the plane, the same piece found in alaska flight 261 crash in 2000 but investigators continue to focus on possible similarities between flight 302, and the crash in indonesia on october 29th. both planes were boeing 737 max 8s and both crashed just minutes