the pilot is doing to physically fly the plane. so if the pilot is manually flying the plane, this little gizmo is still going. so they thought, well, it doesn t really matter, because they know how to fly the plane. this isn t going to go wrong. and so we carry on. the problem was as the, as the computer system detected something was going wrong, it then decided oh, that sarong command. so it countermanned that command. what seemed to have happened on the initial incident was that the nose kept going down by five degrees until finally the plane was vertical and heading for the ground under power. investigators in paris are looking at the black box data from that ethiopian airlines crash. what can the black box tell us about destress signs before the plane went down? two black boxes. one okay and slightly worried about the second, possibly
because if you don t know about the gizmo, and they don t tell you, you cannot possibly put it right. makes sense. do you think this new software will ever be able to restore passengers confidence in this particular boeing model? well, let s put it like this. i have a windows 10 computer and i keep getting software upgrades and patches and half the programs on it i don t know what they do anyway, but along comes saying this will fix x, y and z and i trust people and put the patch on s we don t know. it might fix it for some and might not for others. what we need is a positive effort from boeing and frankly i don t think they re trying hard enough at the moment. how many attempts to you think it will take before they decide, okay. it s fixed. now it will work for certain this is not going to happen again. how many run doing they have to go through before they can give it the okay? got to be continued. can t just say, right, it s fixed and we re carry on with
max went into commercial use. should that have been standard procedure? not the point they weren t ready. it wasn t actually included in the rollout of the training literature. the idea being that the marketing side of things thought we don t want to load the pilots up with too much stuff. they need to be able to fly the aircraft and this basically will never go wrong. they ll never need it. silently there in the background. why put something there and not tell them how to use it? well, basically that the plane is all wrong in weight terms and it needs this little gizmo that is called an mcas to keep the plane level because the front part is too heavy, two vast engines set well forward of the wing. all the time testing air flow around the plane and making tweaks to the tail and wings to make sure it s level. this is independent of whatever
in the air. this is a training issue, because you should know how to deactivate that system, but if you re not even aware the system exists, you wouldn t even think of it. joining me now, julian bray and aviation expert who specializes in security operations. how could that single switch, anti-stall system, have saved the ethiopian airlines flight? good morning. the whole point is they didn t know about it. the whole this special gizmo was designed to float in the backgrounds, underneath whatever the pilot was doing. so the pilot could be, also on autopilot could fly the plane manually but all this time this computer program was crimming the aircraft, making sure it s on the horizontal. the point, didn t tell them so they really couldn t do anything about it. was this a training problem? no training flight simulators were ready before the boeing 737
steve? steve: all right, steve, than all right, ainsley,than. a south florida company is debuting g.p.s. ankle monitors giving parents the ability to track their kids 24 hours a day. is this going a little too far? here with the discussion we have got the owner of tampa bay monitoring frank and family therapist tom kersting is screen right. good morning to you. good morning. good morning. steve: frank, let s start with you. hold up the gizmo and tell us who this is intended for. well, actually, we have had we were contacted by patiencparents and what they asd us for was there a way of monitoring their children. we are talking about runaways and children sneaking out in the middle of the night who might have who they suspect has a drug problem is looking to score drugs.