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Of a 737 max plane shortly after take—off. and a preliminary investigation revealed the door was missing four bolts. the ntsb chair reiterated to congress last week that boeing has said there are no records documenting the removal of the alaska airlines door. i'm not going to sugar—coat this. this is a criminal cover up. records do, in fact, exist. i know this because i've personally passed them to the fbi. boeing, which is one of the world's two major producers of commercial planes, insists its jets are safe. as for its culture, in a statement to the bbc, boeing said it was taking steps t...

Positive sign. i want people to know that their voices are being heard another interesting political development, charlie, my anxious to get your thoughts. the trump campaign is now asking gop candidates around the country who may be using his name or image to raise, to raise money, to give a chunk of that money to the trump campaign? >> its name, image, likeness, just like college sports. okay. except a look. if i were a candidate running for office and the trump campaign came to me and said, you need to pay me i would've said no, we're not going to pay you. you should be supporting us. so he...

Boeing has been under the scrutiny at the us senate. the plane—maker faces allegations of safety failures after a series of incidents — including a mid—air blow out on one of its jets. boeing has defended its fleet, saying billions of travellers have flown safely. from new york, michelle fleury reports. this was damaging testimony for the plane maker. boeing engineer turned whistle—blower, sam salehpour, claimed boeing used short cuts to reduce bottlenecks during the assembly of its 787 dreamliner planes. he said he faced retaliation for raising safety issues. and after the threats and...

Is questioning whether boeing has adequate safety practices in place, oversight to ensure that its products are, in fact, in compliance with faa regulations, and questioning the entire inspection process, the quality control process. the faa chief in a cnbc exclusive this morning went on the air and essentially said the faa is going to increase its oversight of boeing's production and manufacturing, and oh, by the way, also the company called spirit aero systems that provides the fuselage for boeing systems. here's what he said. >> this is a brand new aircraft. it has just come off the line, a...

This is important, i know you'll appreciate it. following the max 8 crashes, where 346 people died overseas, boeing doesn't have enough staff, i'm sorry, the faa doesn't have enough paid inspectors to watch every part of the process. it delegates some of the authority to boeing employees acting as the eyes and ears of the faa in inspecting the process. now the faa is saying this may not be working and as as you said, it follows that investigation that they announced yesterday. e read for you what the faa said about the investigation. this incident, says the fa should have never happened. it ca...