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Aviation analyst, miles o'brien, also the science correspondent for pbs news hour, and sarah nelson, international president with the association of flight attendants, they called for the boeing jet to be grounded. miles i want to start with you because what cnn has learned from at least these five episodes that were so alarming to pilots, they felt the need to pick up the phone and call into the federal data base to explain the weird thing that had happened to them in the air. let me read some of these. the first one the pilot reports, the air craft accelerated normally, and the captain engag...

Problem and it's driving this. >> boeing chief reportedly called president trump to tell him everything is a-okay. is that normal? >> well, keep in mind the context. he called the president after the president yesterday said planes are far too complex and suggested that planes can only be flown now by m.i.t. grads as opposed to real pilots. i think he was reading the tea leaves and thinking that the faa is about to ground the plane. the president is laying the groundwork for it and he called them to reassure him that in boeing's view, the plane is safe. but listen, folks, let's also remember i...

They are urging you to be on alert. chilling last words from a pilot killing all four people on board just moments after having problems during takeoff the pilot reports on the radio "we're going down." greg bird and two of his sons were killed along with one of the men's fiancee. he was flying his other son's graduation in mississippi. police say it's a miracle that other drivers were not injured. >> that plane was so low it wasn't even higher than the truck. part of the plane on the left side hit my truck. i looked to my left and the plane was up against the wall burning. transportation sa...

Action. >> what does that tell you, miles? >> well, it is important for the port awe horuthority to keep the landing proper in the runway despite the bad landing, and it is clear for other pilots to understand what is going on. but you have to understand that this is a dynamic situation, because it is shifting from rain to freezing rain and shifting to snow at the time. and one of the things that the airports do is to send a truck out there with a gadget behind it which is going to measure the friction of the runway to make some clear determination to make sure that the braking action is good,...

7,000 feet of runway. the md-88 needs about 5,000 feet on a good day. you had low visibility low ceiling and a contaminated runway. which means it's got some ice or it's slick. air traffic controller relies primarily on pilot reports. the plane that went in before them said headquarters good braking action it's fine. it's a dynamic situation, the weather is changing and one person's good braking might be another guy's slick runway. >> miles calls it a varsity airport. anyone who flies in and out of there a lot may use something more negative when discussing laguardia airport. is this a situati...