AFTER
AFTER NEW
AFTER NEW EVIDENCE CAME TO LIGHT ABOUT THE ETHIOPIAN
AIRLINES FLIGHT THAT CRASHED
LAST WEEKEND, KILLING 150 PEOPLE
KING 5 AVIATION SPECIALIST,
GLENN FARLEY WITH A LOOK AT THE
ANNOUNCEMENT, THE BOEING
REACTION, AND WHERE WE GO FROM
HERE.
HERE.
HERE. >>
HERE. >> ONE IMPORTANT THING I WANT
TO REMIND PEOPLE, THE MAX IS
THE NEWEST GENERATION OF A
PLANE THAT HAS BEEN AROUND
SINCE THE 1960S IN VARIOUS
GENERATION, THIS DOES NOT
AFFECT ALL 737S, JUST THE MAX,
TO AVOID THAT ENVISIONS.
TONIGHT IN A STATEMENT, BOEING
IS BACKING THE GROUNDING OF THE
MAX 8. THE FAA HAD NO REASON
TO BELIEVE THERE WAS A
SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM THAT WOULD
WARRANT A GROUNDING, SO WHAT
CHANGED?
CHANGED?
CHANGED? IT IS ON EVERY FLIGHT DECK OF
EVERY AIRLINER AND MORE, IT IS
CALLED A DSP, IT'S FOR
AUTOMATIC DEPENDENT
AUTOMATIC DEPENDENT SURVEILLANCE BROADCAST.
SURVEILLANCE BROADCAST. ONE OF THE THINGS IT DOES IS
TELL US WHAT A PLANE IS OR WAS
DOING AND PRODUCES DATA LIKE
THIS.
THIS.
THIS. THIS IS AN IMAGE OF THE ADSB
SIGNAL ON THE ETHIOPIAN FLIGHT
ON SUNDAY, AS RECORDED BY
FLIGHT RADAR 24.
THE CRAZY GREEN LINE SHOWS IT
ERRATICALLY!
ERRATICALLY! UP AND DOWN AND UP AGAIN BEFORE
ENDING AFTER 3 MINUTES INTO ITS
6 MINUTE FLIGHT.
WHAT THE FAA SAID THIS
AFTERNOON IS THAT NEWLY
PROCESSED HIGH-RESOLUTION ADSB
IS GATHERED BY SATELLITE, SHOWS
A DISTURBING SIMILARITY
BETWEEN ETHIOPIA AND THE
OCTOBER CRASH OF THE LION
FLIGHT IN OCTOBER.
>> WE ARE ISSUING AN EMERGENCY
ORDER TO GROUND ALL FLIGHTS OF
737S MAX 8 AND THE 737 MAX 9 .
>> Reporter: ANNOUNCEMENT FIRST
FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP, THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT WAS NOW GOING TO
JOIN THE REST OF THE WORLD AND
GROUND THE MAX JET.
WHAT CHANGED FROM THE FAA
CONTINUED RESISTANCE YESTERDAY?
IN A CONFERENCE CALL WITH
REPORTERS, THAT ACTING
ADMINISTRATOR, DAN ELWELL.
>> WE ARE RESOLUTE IN OUR
POSITION WE WOULD NOT TAKE
ACTION UNTIL HE HAD DATA TO
SUPPORT TAKING ACTION.
>> Reporter: AS THE ORDER IS
ISSUED BY THE FAA, AIRLINES HAD
THE GROUND THE U.S. REGISTERED
MAX JET, 74 FLYING FOR
SOUTHWEST, AMERICAN, AND
UNITED.
UNITED.
UNITED. AND COMPLETE FLIGHTS ALREADY
AIRBORNE.
AIRBORNE.
AIRBORNE. THE CONCERN IS EVER SYSTEM
CALLED McAST, A SAFETY
TECHNOLOGY UNIQUE TO THE 737
MAX IT IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THE
NOSE OF THE PLANE FROM PITCHING
UP AND THE AIRCRAFT FROM
STALLING.
STALLING.
STALLING. THE PROBLEM, IF THERE'S A
SENSOR ERROR, THE SYSTEM COULD
PUSH THE PLANE INTO A DIVE.
PILOTS ARE TRAINED TO DEAL WITH
THE RESULT WHEN ADJUSTING THE
POSITION OF THE HORIZONTAL
STABILIZER RUNS OUT OF CONTROL,
WHAT THEY CALL RUNAWAY TRIM.
BY THROWING A COUPLE SWITCHES,
THAT CAN STOP US.
THE PILOTS COMPLAINED THEY WERE
NOT INFORMED THE McAST SYSTEM
EXISTED.
EXISTED.
EXISTED. SINCE THE CRASH OF LIME AIR,
WORD HAS BEEN PUT OUT BY BOEING
AND THE REGULATORS, YET THE
QUESTION REMAINS, DID THE
PILOTS ABOARD THE ETHIOPIAN JET
NOT GET THAT MESSAGE? IF IN
FACT THE 2 PLANES ACTUALLY
SUFFER THE SAME PROBLEM.
737 PILOT AND AIR SAFETY
ANALYST, JOHN NANCE THIS
AFTERNOON.
AFTERNOON. >> NO JUSTIFICATION TO GROUND,
IT IS A CREW TRAINING MATTER,
IT CAN BE SOLVED ALMOST
OVERNIGHT.
OVERNIGHT. >> THIS WEEK WITH, WE SAW
BOEING USING THE 737 MAX 7 TO
CONDUCT A TEST LIKE, ALL PART
OF TESTING FOR SOFTWARE FIX
THAT WOULD ELIMINATE THE AIR
WITH McAST TO PUT THE PLANE
INTO A DIVE.
THE FAA, ALONG WITH THE
TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD HAS
TEAMS IN ETHIOPIA, THEY SAID
THERE WAS ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
FOUND ON THE GROUND TO SUPPORT
THE GROUNDING.
THE GROUNDING. BUT IT WILL NOT SAY WHAT THAT
IS, CITING THE CONFIDENTIALITY
OF THE INVESTIGATION.
YET WHAT WE WITNESSED THIS WEEK
WITH INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES
DECLARING THEIR OWN GROUNDINGS,
POLITICAL STATEMENTS AND MEGA
MEDIA COVERAGE, THE HEAD OF THE
FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION THIS
AFTERNOON SAID THE APPROACH TO
THIS CRAFT HAS BEEN HAPHAZARD
AT BEST, THE REST ON DECISIONS
BASED ON CONJECTURE AND
PRESSURE RATHER THAN DECISIONS
BASED ON FACTS AND EVIDENCE.
>> WHEN WILL WE HAVE ALL OF THE
FACTS COLLECTED?
FACTS COLLECTED? >> WE MAY NOT, WE MAY WAIT A
YEAR PLUS TO GET THIS, WE STILL
DON'T HAVE A FINAL REPORT OUT
ON INDONESIA, MUCH LESS THIS
ONE WHICH JUST STARTED.
WE STILL DON'T HAVE THE FLIGHT
DATA RECORDER INFORMATION, THAT
WOULD BE CRUCIAL TO MAKING
THESE KINDS OF SHORT-TERM
DECISIONS.
DECISIONS. HOPEFULLY, THOSE BLACK BOXES
ARE HEADED TO FRANCE TO BE
RIGHT OUT TONIGHT.
THERE'S A LOT OF FRUSTRATION
ABOUT THE BOXES.
>> WHEN COULD WE SEE THE MAX 8
OR 9 BACK IN THE AIR?
>> I THINK THAT DEPENDS A LOT
ON WHAT BOEING IS ABLE TO DO IN
TERMS OF REDESIGNING THE
SOFTWARE, MAKING OTHER CHANGES,
THE FAA WILL ISSUE ANOTHER
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE RELATED
TO THAT, THEY PROMISED BY NEXT
MONTH.
MONTH.
MONTH. NOBODY IS PUTTING A TIME LIMIT
ON IT.
ON IT.
ON IT. >>
ON IT. >> IT SOUNDS LIKE IF THERE IS
REFORMULATING SOFTWARE, THERE
WILL BE RETRAINING INVOLVED AND
THAT COULD ALSO TAKE EXTRA
TIME.'S