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Giving you more choice and control compared to other top wireless carriers. save up to $400 a year when you switch. plus, unwrap $250 off a new samsung phone. click, call or visit a store today. aviation giant, boeing, is temporarily suspending production of the 737 max next month. it follows the grounding of the 737 maxes following crashes that claimed the lives of 363 people. in a statement boeing says safely returning the 737 max to service is our top priority. author of the book "the plane that wasn't there," why we haven't found mh-370. jeff wise. jeff, good to see you.

Jeff, this plane has been -- it's not been flying for many months, but they've been producing it at a rate of about 40 planes a month. and there's a backlog. they've got about 5,000 orders on this plane and they've got 500 planes that have been built, sitting in storage right now. why did boeing now choose to say we're not building this anymore for the time being? >> those of us outside of boeing, we don't really know exactly. it's surprising in a sense. if you take them at face value that this plane is probably going to be flying in, well, let's say, february, march, april, that's only a coup...

Indonesian crash. >> i'm going to ask les in a moment to explain why people should feel okay about flying on these planes or not and what a pilot needs to know but i want to ask jeff, because jeff wrote in an article covering this an explanation that i think is easy to understanding. boeing engineers had to move the point where the plane attaches to the wing. this affected the way the plane handled. most alarmingly it left the plane with a tendency to pitch up which could result in an aerodynamic stall. to prevent this, boeing added a new auto pilot system that would pitch the nose down if it ...

They are read out. it could be the usa, it could be somewhere else. so the black boxes so far have not been read out it would appear according to the ceo of the airline and they may be going to the u.s. for a readout. i also wanted to make the point that while american airlines is standing behind the plane and flying it, its own flight attendants union is calling for the ceo to ground the plane. the flight attendants at american say they are concerned about the max. >> jeff, knowing what you know about this, let's assume at the moment what we know, that there is a particular problem and that t...

Grounding the max 9 models as well, although they haven't been involved in any crashes. and in the united states, senators from both sides of the aisle are calling for the faa to ground the jets until the investigation into the latest crash on sunday in ethiopia is complete. until we know what similarities, if any, the ethiopia crash has to october's lion air crash in indonesia. joining me now nbc news correspondent tom costello who covers aviation, less ovand, a retired captain and jeff wise, author of "the plane that wasn't there, why we haven't found mh-370." tom -- thanks to all of you, by...