maryland flag tuesday night. governor wes moore called for a full and thorough invin place f. >> today at noon a discussion on the israel-hamasg war after nearly six months of fighting and the prospect of a cease fire. hosted by the stimson center, watch live at noon on now, or ot c-span.org. >> this evening on q&a, patty davis discusses her book "dear mom and dad" a boowr as a memoir to her late parents ron and nancy reagan. watch q&a this week or online at c-span.org. we are joined to ta about aviation safety by the former

inspector general at the transportation department, currently an aviation lawyer, welcome's good to be with you. host: before we get into aviation safety, the■ftimore isf mind if you'd like to make a comment about that. >> sure, obviously, the national transportation safetyoathe coass jurisdiction to investigate. i am old enough tor the sunshine skyway collapse in florida and the comparisons, the similarities are quite be read. when you see the pictures, they look similar and the differences are, there but tbridge at the sy had big round cement support

structures that act as buffers or islands around the port and that's one of the most poignant things tt' missing from the accident in baltimore. a few miles up the road, there is a bridgeshment program going on on another bridge where they are putting those offenders or dolphins around the bridge to protect the structure. i think that will have -- will come into play a lot in this. of course, the reason for the power outage on the that caused it to be on steerable in the first place, it could be many things. they are lookingthey have the d. that probably will give us the answer right there is to why there was a power outage on the ship which made it unsuitable. i think they will have the y solved rather quickly.

then what to do about all this. it could take five years or more to build a new bridge. in charleston, south carolina, we had a bridge that was also hit in the late 40's and early 50's by a ship andped into the harbor and they replace them. just about 15 years ago, we got a gorgeous new suspension fendeg they were around the base of the bridge. the goal is to make it impossible that a ship could hit it. new construction methods will b/ in play when they replace the bridge. that's a very long process, five , probably 5-7 years and $10 billion. host: there are many issues that boeing has been facing regarding aviation safety. ar lawyer and

do you have links to those legal cases involving boeing? >> guest: i am involved in the litigation in th the boeing 7378 in ethiopia. those cases are ongoing. boeing has admitted liability after about 2.5 years of litigation. boeing has admitted liability so those cases areei resolved and may be set for trial later in the year. that's on damages. host: refresher, in january on alaska airlines flight, a door plug in a 737e aircraft blew out midair over portland, oregon. investigators from the ntsb had said the evidence showed bolts that held the door in place were missing at the time of the blowout. who is at full for that? guest:estion that's being resolved.

now we have learned that the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigationl investigation because the ntsb which is rather unusual were irritated the records concerning that particular door plug repair before it left the available to it or were missing. maybe they didn't exist. the chair of the ntsb expressed some frustration or anger that those records didn't and soon thereafter, was the announcement that came in a strange way with letters to the persons on the pladgne, there ia federal act that requires in a criminal investigator to take into consideration the rights and interests of the victims. ?% a letter saying now there is a

criminal investigation. that's at least two investigations that are out there against boeing. they concern boeing but to open a criminal investigation records are not available and weren't available and no one at least one last there was a pubbolt ac. that prompted criminal investigation. host: regarding the tragic crashes of max8 boeing aircraft, was there any reap -- anything related to those crasheses? guest: i think there is something related and that's the continuing issue of quality excellence. to have that situation occur with not one but two aircraft that were six months of part

with just when the planes went down, the first response is not stst the max8 accident. the first response is blame the pilot. investigations and air, and about 75% of the cases, the ntsb and the faa always blamed pilot. i've been involved in several cases where we are able to prove that the conclusion that it was the pilots full was an error. ■uone case that the engines has something called core lock in moved backwards and theystem waz instruction from the factory had the reading system backward so in many cases, they blame the pilot and a terms out it was mechanical. in the case of the 737 max8 cases, there was so much there so much that came out in the investigation. senal hearings and disclosing -- we among other

lawyers litigated that case and didn't havecovery for two years before boeing admitted liability in that case. i can't discuss the discovery because it's a court protective order but the amount of information that came out about so many things that were not what you would expect with manufacturing of the aircraft. boeing admitted that it had so many problems they knew they had when the first one went down. it was six months before the ethiopia crash which is the one that i'm involved in litigation in federal■s,i, that should have been the warning bell right there. i think the second one wouldn't have happened had ey control prs

and manufacturing problems and oversight problems. i don't thinththink we would'ver blowout. i think it's a quality problem, it's an oversightbl much an engm but it is an outsourcing problem. they change the wayhe 30 years with a lot of outsourcing. before, boeing probably had more control ov their parts and asse. things have changed over the last 30 years in aerospace manufacturing. host: i will open the phone lines to anybody that wants to call in and make a comment or a question about airline safety. our lines are regional this time so if you are in the eastern or central time zone, call us on (202) 748-8000, if you're in the mountain or pacific time zones,

you can call us on (202) 748-8001. you can also send us a text at (202) 748-8003we are also on soo facebook.com/c-span and on x @c-span w j. i want to ask you some specific starting with january 5 when the 737 max9 door plug failure . on january 8, three days later, airlines find more looset allegs excessive amounts of defects at a key boeing supplier. can you tell us about that and those issues were found and addressed? guest: the supplier was an manufacturer in kansas.

they provide the parts to the boeing spirit arrow. the problems were covered as they were investigating the door blowout. thiss shipped to boeing loosely assembledplan, they take the door assembly and put it into the plane and that firmly affects all the etc. at first, there was a question of where was the problem? problem from this assembly or a problem on the line? is the information came down any specific on this particular plane. they learned there had been a problem on the right-hand side at problem

, boeing, nothing supplier, and while looking at the right-hand side door plug, theyhought we better check the left-hand side door plug and they found some problems there and it was the left-hand side door plug that thsb later found they didn't have the records for that. no one is really sure where the bolts are. there were some whistleblowers or commentators, people who said they are probably in the trash but that certainly has not bvere investigation. those are just people commenting at the plant. that's w atike the problem really was at going on the assembly and not the supplier. of course, there is rumors in th■k going is now in the market to repurchase and by that supplier back and put it into the boeing ld about that fs

is from x -- guest: or under supervised and without proper oversight. the faa and over the years, i've criticized the faa a lot and they did come to the late but to out and the boeing processes and they looked at the fire. just the supplier. compliance with their own procedures, with their own assembly, with their own quality control. when aircraft, you don't just have to have the qualified and approved materials, you also have to qualified and approved manufacturing processes.

the plane cannot be certified unless you follow the processes in addition to having the qualified certified parts. they found that the faa flunked boeing at about 1/3 of inspections nets does this year. boeing got a lot more criticism but the problem was theoversighl and requiring all of the workers and all the processes and all ■ the standards that were already there. it's doing what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it. control and i call it doing what you are supposed to do when you do it. host: on marchiu■ sorry, march 9, a boeing whistleblower was found dead. this is from x --

guest: i kno■jkçwya■w■k charlese a fairly small tim. i know his attorneys and they are good and i've known them for years. i've■ird case. what i will say is that is under investigation but i'm a -- before the justice of -- department of transportation, i was a prosecutor at the department of justice and how process a potential crime scene is very important. while ascender investigation, what i would want to be a prosed investigator on that case that everything was done exactly as they were supposed to do. kind of a gunshot incident, you supposed to look at the

gunshot residue and look at this whole sce.o do all that and none of that has come out because it is a case under investigation. while it falls within the department, in south carolina, you can call in state law enforcement and you can get all the help you want. hopefully, they are doing everything by the book. even here locally, there has not been a lot of information come out about that investigation. host: let's talk to callers now, jerry is from broadway, virginia, good morni good morni. you know as well as i do that the problem is dei hiring practices. they are not hiring people because of qualifications. they want to hire them because they are lgbtq.

that's the bottom line. host: m÷nary i'm glad you brought up the faa. at they do and where they come from or their color or sexual orientation, the bottom line, and it's already coming out with the faa audits is you have to do thanks we are leaving this here for a discussion on israel and hamalive coverage on c-span.

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