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Come from the cockpit. as i said, the sun is setting. a couple hundred people mostly from the surrounding villages have gathered here to witness what is an incredibly horrific crash site, at the same time it is a real blow to ethiopian airlines. they re extremely proud of this of this airline. robyn kriel, cnn, near addis ababa, ethiopia. mary skiochiavo is with us n. she s our aviation analyst. we know an ntsb team is on the way to ethiopia, that crash site right now. what happens when they get there, what s priority one? priority one, obviously, secure the site. there seems to be a lot of people milling about. they have to secure it. the ntsb is there because they are among a few other countries really the world experts on black box data downloads, reading, figuring out what s on there. and that, and i believe in this ....
Crash, b is going to have the answers. 737 max. it has the newest models of black boxes. records approximately 1,000 lines of data from different parts of the aircraft, instruments, the speed, everything about the aircraft and the cockpit voice recording is 25 hours long so they would have prior flights on it as well. so that will be the ntsb s primary interest and obviously boeing s on its way, too, and it s a big issue for boeing. this is the second one related to this controller system, it s trouble. and so on that note, mary, because the specific model of airliner, again, it s the boeing 737 max 8. a new aircraft for boeing. an identical model that crashed just a few months ago back in october in indonesia. i mean, what does your gut tell you, is this coincidence or could there be an issue with this model of airliner? well, an air crash investigation, there really is no coincidence. ....