On Engineering Data News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Grounding this fleet site after that deadly crash in ethiopia earlier this week, there are new reports surfacing about several max 8 pilots here in the united states who repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the jet to the federal authorities months before the crash. nbc news' tom costello covers aviation and is live at reagan national airport. tom, call me a worry wart, you know, i was on a plane yesterday. i'd like to think, well, better to be safe than sorry. if there is all these concerns, why doesn't the faa agree? >> reporter: okay. so listen, the faa and the ntsb have taken great prid...

And southwest and its pilots union both say they have had zero issues with the 737 max. zero. they are flying the plane. so is united in terms of the max 9 and a bunch of canadian airlines are flying the plane. we have had this global tidal wave of airlines and countries and regulators decide they don't have enough information to be confident about the 737 max 8 because of these two crashes, ethiopia and indonesia. therefore, they admit, they don't have the data, under an abundance of caution and some suggest emotion, they are putting the plane on the ground. about two-thirds of the fleet is o...