Days ago. Nbcs Tom Costello covers aviation for us. Wow, theyve got to restore confidence. They have to make it clear their planes are safe. What are they doing . Listen, theyre on full damage control. Make no mistake about it. This is one of the most serious crises in boeing history. It comes five years after the fatal max 8 crashes. Boeing announcing theyre going to make more quality inspections a mandatory part of the process. Theyre going to include spirit aerosystems. Thats the company that provided the fuselage with that bad Door Plug Weve been talking about. Also, they say theyve identified 50 other points that they need to work on at spirit in the buildout process. Theyre offering airlines, complete oversight inspections. Weve already seen Alaska Airlines announce its not satisfied with boeings quality control. Alaska airlines themselves sending the spectors Into Boeing plants to doublecheck boeings work. Boeing will have an outside
days ago. nbc s tom costello covers aviation for us. wow, they ve got to restore confidence. they have to make it clear their planes are safe. what are they doing? listen, they re on full damage control. make no mistake about it. this is one of the most serious crises in boeing history. it comes five years after the fatal max 8 crashes. boeing announcing they re going to make more quality inspections a mandatory part of the process. they re going to include spirit aerosystems. that s the company that provided the fuselage with that bad door plug we ve been talking about. also, they say they ve identified 50 other points that they need to work on at spirit in the buildout process. they re offering airlines, complete oversight inspections. we ve already seen alaska airlines announce it s not satisfied with boeing s quality control. alaska airlines themselves sending the spectors into boeing plants to double-check boeing s work. boeing will have an outside
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and all the no-tams are positioned in the right way. if you wanted a sheer guess, a few hours but i don t think we flow nearly enough to be sure of that at this point. steve, stay with us. bringing in a conversation with nbc s tom costello covers aviation for us here. tom what more can you tell us about this outage? reporter: faa tells us they re working to bring the system back up as quickly as possible and doingpiecemeal, bringing it up piece by piece. you ve gone through the discussion what the no-tam computer is. used to refer notice to airmen now notice to air missions, bottom line, providing critical safety information for pilots. whether runways closed, airspace closed because of a military operation or a rocket launch. all of that information is presented realtime to pilots. when that system went down, this morning, the faa immediately tried to alert everybody that
grounding this fleet site after that deadly crash in ethiopia earlier this week, there are new reports surfacing about several max 8 pilots here in the united states who repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the jet to the federal authorities months before the crash. nbc news tom costello covers aviation and is live at reagan national airport. tom, call me a worry wart, you know, i was on a plane yesterday. i d like to think, well, better to be safe than sorry. if there is all these concerns, why doesn t the faa agree? reporter: okay. so listen, the faa and the ntsb have taken great pride and have a success record over the last 60 years, they act on data, on science, on engineering data, if you will. and so they are insisting the data isn t there right now to justify grounding the 737 max. which by the way, american airlines and its pilots union