Boeing submitted a government-mandated report to the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday intended to help prevent another unsafe plane from leaving...
The FAA in February gave Boeing 90 days to submit the report, asking it to propose overhauls of its aircraft manufacturing and quality control processes.
Boeing must also adopt a new safety management system, a committee to increasing employee training, boost employee oversight, and incorporate more input into manufacturing and quality control from users of its aircraft, including pilots. The mid-air emergency prompted the FAA to put a stop to the expansion of 737 Max production. Those limits contributed to a 40% production rate drop in Max planes in the first quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier.Whitaker said the FAA had not yet set specific metrics for increasing production and Boeing had not requested an increase to the current caps.
Members of the company’s senior management team took part in Thursday's meeting with the FAA, including outgoing CEO David Calhoun, who has said he will resign from the CEO role at the end of the year, though stay on as a director.Boeing is also currently under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for its role in the blowout.
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