thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it s the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bow little lis is with us. what are we learning about this second object? reporter: this object is still quite a bit of a mystery. what we know is that on thursday the military observed this unknown object in us air space just off the coast of alaska. they sent up military aircraft to get a look at this thing. pilots weren t able to tell a whole lot. they could see it was flying at about 40,000 fe
thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m fredericka witfield. we begin with the search for answers after the u.s. shot down what is described as an unidentified high altitude object. u.s. fighter jets taking it down after the coast of alaska friday. pentagon officials say they acted swiftly after the object about the size of a small car crossed into frozen territorial waters. it s the second time in less than a week that u.s. fighter jets have shot an object out of the sky following that chinese spy balloon taken down off the coast of south carolina last saturday. katie bow little lis is with us. what are we learning about this second object? reporter: this object is still quite a bit of a mystery. what we know is that on thursday the military observed this unknown object in us air space just off the coast of alaska. they sent up military aircraft to get a look at this thing. pilots weren t able to tell a
made mistakes in the wake of the safety crisis plaguing their 737 max jet. 346 people died in two crashes. cnn s rene marsh is live in washington with more. what will this mea culpa sound like? yeah, it s going to be day one of back-to-back hearings on capitol hill. today been the senators. tomorrow the house. and boeing s ceo dennis muhlenberg should expect to be hammered by tough questions. how the hell did this happen? now the focus will be on the 737 max automated flight control system which played a major role in both of those crashes. the system relied on only one center for critical information. that made it vulnerable if the system failed. pilots weren t trained on that system that automatically pushed the plane s nose down. there was no mention of it.
pilots weren t that familiar with this automated system we all know at mcas because boeing told regulators during development of the plane pilots wouldn t really encounter it that much so they didn t need to know that much about it. this former pilot s concerns first came to light last week as well, publicly, when we got ahold, cnn got ahold, of these internal messages he was trading with another employee saying he had concerns about how this automated system was working s he, himself, was having trouble controlling the plane in the flight simulator. this is something certainly the department of justice, which is probing the boeing, whether they misled regulators and in probing the certification and design of this plane, this is something they re definitely going to look at as well. an important report. thank you. a wildfire in california that just started last night but has grown to more than 10,000
to do with foreign pilots and lack of experience. and that s why these crashes may have occurred. i think sully and others are trying to put silence to that. this hearing was the stakeholders involved. the people who are going to have to fly this plane, the pilots, the flight attendants. they are deeply concerned with how this plane was engineered to begin with, and how the faa certified it, it all goes back to this mcat system and why the pilots weren t aware that this system we talked about, that tilts the plane downward to correct itself in flight. that the pilots had no idea it was there. when we move forward and you talk about ungrounding this plane. there s a lot of talk about whether or not simulator training will be required instead of just the ipad training that sully was talking about, or the computer based training. it s a big deal, it s a big expense for airlines, it s also going to take a lot of time. there was a big push forward to me, simulator training will be