A major interagency review of Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX jet faults both the manufacturer and the federal overseer for the flaws that led to two deadly crashes
faults both the manufacturer and the federal overseer for the flaws that led to two deadly crashes — the company for inadequately explaining a new flight control system at the heart of disasters, and the agency failing to understand the system it was approving.
The panel recommended that FAA overhaul its practice of delegating so many regulatory tasks to Boeing and other manufacturers, a practice that has become increasingly common in a strategy Congress has directed the agency to take. Former National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Chris Hart heads the technical review panel, which also includes representatives from the FAA, NASA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.looks only at FAA’s certification of the MAX’s flight control system, which was implicated in both fatal crashes.
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