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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration plans to convene a review board in the coming weeks to consider safety concerns about engines on Boeing 737 MAX airplanes after two bird ...
The FAA's oversight of Boeing came under new scrutiny after a door plug missing key bolts blew off a new Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet at 16,000 feet (4,880 meters) in January, prompting the ...
The FAA put Boeing under heavy scrutiny earlier this year, ordering it to devise a comprehensive safety plan and barring it from boosting 737 production after a door panel bl FAA won't allow ...
On December 11, 2019, during a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation titled "The Boeing 737 MAX: Examining the Federal Aviation Administration's Oversight of the Aircraft's Certification," an internal FAA review [128] dated December 3, 2018, was released, which predicted a high MAX accident rate, if it kept flying with MCAS unchanged ...
In April 2019, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Elaine L. Chao, who boarded a MAX flight on March 12 amid calls to ground the aircraft [22] created the Special Committee to Review the FAA's Aircraft Certification Process to review of Organization Designation Authorization, which granted Boeing authority to review systems on behalf of the FAA ...
As a result of the March 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash and the Lion Air Flight 610 crash five months earlier, most airlines and countries began grounding the Boeing 737 MAX 8 (and in many cases all MAX variants) due to safety concerns, but the FAA declined to ground MAX 8 aircraft operating in the U.S. [65] On March 12, the FAA ...
The FAA has closed only 14 of 34 reports of undue pressure, with the others remaining open for more than a year on average, according to the report. Meanwhile, there are no outward signs the ...
The FAA published a significant revision to the U.S. manufacturing regulations on October 16, 2009. [17] This new rule eliminates some of the legal distinctions between forms of production approval issued by the FAA, which should have the effect of further demonstrating the FAA's support of the quality systems implemented by PMA manufacturers.