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This isn't monday morning quarterbacking. if we had known the way boeing had built mcas, experts would say this is a problem. >> this will be taught at business schools for years n years to come. >> don't rush. stick to your values. stick to make sure you know what you are doing. if you're making major changes, check, check and double check again. this would not have happened if mcas had been built properly. there were other factors, certainly, that contribute to it, but mcas was the proximate cause. >> richard, thank you very much. some answers for those families still devastated, of course. ...

Was the plane equipped for this elevation? >> the ceiling is about 39000 feet, so 50,000 feet it would never get up that high. even if he was operating above that altitude. >> it was serviced in 2009. so apparently as a result, the technology the radar system would be reliable, do you believe the pilot saw something that didn't exist? >> that's the case. if the pilots are traveling and see a thunderstorm, normally, they would deviate by about 20 miles around the storm. in this instance he was probably searching for a hole in

Quickly and it's very hard to predict sometimes. >> and so, with the weather being hard to predict then i would assume this is nothing unusual despite being in the monsoon season, the fact there are these thunderstorms and downdrafts that can be extremely violent and dangerous to fly through. >> yes, it's nothing unusual at all about that in this part of the world. i fly regularly, just flew back from thailand a few days ago through a thunderstorm. that's part of living in southeast asia. it was normal, standard procedure. nobody's questioning whether the plane should have been allowed to take...

Trained to deal with this sort of thing? is there a certain protocall? >> well it would be to look for a hole. the best thing to do is actually to avoid it all together. >> in this area it seems impossible because it's monsoon season. these flights are constantly flying in and out of thunderstorms. >> that is true and keep in mind, the pilots in this area are doing this every single day, so they have a high, tremendous level of confidence while flying the airplane. the it's just hard to tell at this point. they probably thought they could penetrate without a problem. >> and there's also lightn...

The pit it tubes. they come out of the aircraft in side going forward and they determine and get the air speed based on the amount of air in the pressure of the air that's going into the tube. that's how you get your air speed. the crash back in 2009, those tubes, two of the three actually froze up and that actually caused the computer system on board that flight to just be totally out of whack and sadly, tragically, the pilots on board did not realize what was happening, that the plane was going into a stall, that they were on altitude because the computerized system and the information was t...