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Speaker 1: Right. Let me tell you about my colleague Kylie's reaction

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Speaker 1: to that Air India plane crash last night. She was

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Speaker 1: in bed, she was playing on her phone, as you do.

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Speaker 1: The news came in at about nine o'clock. Immediately she

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Speaker 1: suspected it, looked up what kind of plane it was,

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Speaker 1: exactly as she thought, a Boeing, then immediately looked up

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Speaker 1: what plane her twelve year old daughter is on to

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Speaker 1: Somemore the Sunday, exactly as she expected, a Boeing, and

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Speaker 1: she freaked out. Now, fortunately for her, she's got a

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Speaker 1: partner with common sense and actually she herself is reasonably rational,

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Speaker 1: so she's not going to be pulling her daughter off

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Speaker 1: that flight. But she is still feeling incredibly uncomfortable about it.

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Speaker 1: And look, I don't blame her for that. I would

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Speaker 1: bet that she's not alone in reacting like this and

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Speaker 1: just assuming this is a Boeing problem. Truth is, we

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Speaker 1: don't actually know that this is a Boeing problem. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it was a Boeing plane, but there is a very

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Speaker 1: very good chance that this is actually a pilot problem,

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Speaker 1: because it looks like the pilot may not have extended

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Speaker 1: the wing flaps. But trouble for Boeing is it does

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Speaker 1: not have the same benefit of the doubt that a

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Speaker 1: plane maker would normally have with a crash like this

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Speaker 1: because of all of the problems that Boeing has already

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Speaker 1: had in the last ten years. Never mind the fact

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Speaker 1: that the problems have been with the seven three seven

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Speaker 1: narrow body planes and this is a seven eight seven,

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Speaker 1: which is completely different. Never mind that Boeing shares fell

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Speaker 1: immediately they have stayed down. Now, I would say that

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Speaker 1: speed is of the essence here for the people who

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Speaker 1: are doing the investigation with getting those answers out. These investigators,

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Speaker 1: I understand, have about thirty days under international expectations to

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Speaker 1: issue the preliminary findings, but they should, all things going well,

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Speaker 1: have answers out of that flight data, the flight data

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Speaker 1: recorders within days, if not hours of the crash, and

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Speaker 1: then I think the sooner that the public are told

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Speaker 1: what has happened, the better for Boeing's sake, and Boeing

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Speaker 1: will be hoping like hell that the answers clear the

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Speaker 1: plane and unfortunately blame the pilot for more. From Heather

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