FAA to keep closer eye on Boeing’s safety analysis after multiple deadly crashes
Jun 1, 2022, 1:03 PM
(Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)
(Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it is going to keep Boeing on a shorter leash when it comes to performing safety-related work on aircraft.
FAA stated it will still let Boeing employees perform some safety analysis on planes for three years, but not for the full five-year extension Boeing requested.
The move comes after more scrutiny of the FAA’s oversight of Boeing following two deadly crashes involving the Boeing 737 Max aircraft.
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“There are multiple in-work improvements that the FAA would like to assess within the Boeing organization over the next three years,” Ian Won, acting manager of the FAA office that oversees Boeing, told the company.
The list of items that the FAA wants Boeing to complete in the next three years includes ensuring that employees who help the FAA are protected from pressure by company managers and making sure that Boeing quickly corrects any problems it finds.
Boeing issued a statement which, in its entirety, read, “As always, we are committed to working transparently with the FAA through their detailed and rigorous oversight processes.”
Deliveries of the 787, which Boeing calls the Dreamliner, have been halted for most of the past two years because of a series of production problems.
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