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Has been the workhorse so long. in your writing you let us understand that boeing could have many years ago decided to create a new plane. it did not and continued to adapt this plane and got to the point it changed the plane it was. does boeing have a path forward with this particular plane, as you see it? >> that's the big question. clearly, they have been doubling down on this particular model and saying we will apologize when need be and say we remain confident when need be but they're not going to address the basic question. at some point they have to make a clean sheet design for this ki...
Course, in retrospect should have taken the other. >> it would have been a clean sheet. >> clean sheet back then. they didn't, stuck with this. their strategy seems to have been stick it out, stand by the design and hope eventually the public will move on. this decision from the paris air show that iag, this big airplane conglomerate is going to step up and buy them, that's a sign that maybe their strategy is working. >> does renaming the plane help or is ultimately the answer that. ultimately as time goes by i don't think people check what they're getting. they were for a while after these tw...
Made mistake on how it handle the cockpit warning lights of the 737 max in the center of investigations in ethiopia and indonesia and left open the possibility the aircraft could be renamed. jeff is a pilot and aviation journalist joining us. good to see you again. we have been talking since this crisis started. it's a sign someone is prepared to continue doing business with boeing on its aircraft. what does boeing do now? >> we still don't know what boeing will do. it suggests at least they're not in complete free fall. at least there's a bottom to this. they have had a loss of confidence amo...