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Second one. abc's senior transportation correspondent david kerley tonight with the audio. >> reporter: we're hearing tonight the heated conversation just weeks after this first 737 max crash in indonesia. >> we flat out deserve to know what is on our airplanes. >> i don't disagree. >> reporter: union reps for american airline pilots in a tense november meeting with boeing's top engineer about that new flight control system in the max. >> these guys didn't even know the damn system was on the airplane. nor did anybody else. >> reporter: it's called mcas and can force the nose down repeatedly. ...

The faa approve the system? did it let boeing drive the process? >> it wasn't even in the manual that this automated system existed. wasn't in the manual? how can you have a system -- critical safety system certified? >> our risk-based data-driven systems approach has led for, to the u.s., the safest system in history, in the world. >> so, let's bring in david kerley with us live tonight at reagan airport. you've been following this all along, and we know there's a software fix from boeing to fix this problem, it's coming, but it still hasn't been approved? >> reporter: not yet, in fact, the f...