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Cockpit, if that autopilot feature is doing anything out of the ordinary, if there seems to be bugs in the system, would you have easy access to a kill switch, like a self-driving car where you want to actually take the wheel? >> it's a really complicated system i think exceedingly so, but it's designed where -- if you're flying and this starts to happen, of course, first the autopilot has to be off. if the autopilot's on, the system doesn't engage. with the autopilot off and your hand flying it, then that's when it starts happening which is very confusing to the pilot because he thinks i'm co...

Sure it is repaired and this is going to make lion air review their safety procedures. >> you said the fix was buried in the flight manual. so it is in the flight manual, is that right? >> i'm saying, how you shut off the mcas system is in the flight manual. >> you have to make that cognitive leak. >> and you have to make the analysis. to that point, reuters is now reporting from the voice recorder in the lion air flight that the pilots were scouring the flight manual. this is what -- as the plane went down, you can imagine, they don't have any time, and they didn't have any time. >> here is t...

But here it appears that there was a one fail point, this mcas system, and so they're going to be looking at what were the statistics? how many failures were predicted? was it one in 30,000 or one in 10 million? or 1 in 100,000? and 1 in 100,000 event happens every other day in aviation, there's just so much flying. >> mary, always appreciate your insight. there's been so much made too we should point out the similarities between the ethiopian and lion air flight. i want to get in our statement from boeing before we conclude in record to boeing issuing a statement saying the 737 max was certif...

Delve into regulatory approval of a commercial airliner. separately, the black boxes are revealing some initial filings point to similarities between the ethiopian crash and lion air crash the day before. the mcas system lower the pitch in the stall. turned on. force the nose down just in the lion air crash. but in the lion air crash, we also know that the mas was acting on bad data from a malfunctions sensor indicates the plane's pitch and angle of attack. boeing's ceo says boeing is finalizing development of update in response to erroneous sensor inputs. pilot training may also prove to be a...

Direct live after the lion air crash with the same style and jet model. and warned of faulty sensors that could make it hard for pilots to control the airplane. the ceo of ethiopian airlines said his pilots were briefed on the directive. should that have been enough for boeing max 8 pilots to know what to do if they encountered this problem? >> well, it should have been. the system that we're talking about, the mcas system takes its data from two sensors in the front of the airplane. if there's a problem and it's starting to operate when it shouldn't, there's a couple switches in the cockpit, ...