Federal investigators say some safety inspectors who helped set pilot-training standards for the Boeing 737 Max were unqualified and the Federal Aviation Administration seemed to mislead Congress about their competency. The agency said all the inspectors who evaluated the Max were fully qualified for
Federal investigators say some safety inspectors who helped set pilot-training standards for the Boeing 737 Max were unqualified and the Federal Aviation Administration seemed to mislead Congress about their competency.
The special counsel's disclosures are another setback for the FAA, which is already under scrutiny for its certification of the 737 Max. According to published reports, senior FAA officials did not understand a key flight-control system that was later implicated in two crashes that killed 346 people.
In letters to President Donald Trump and key lawmakers, Kerner added that the FAA's answers to Congress about the matter"appear to have been misleading." Then-acting FAA Administrator Daniel Elwell said in May that the whistleblower's complaint dealt with training requirements for inspectors on a different plane.
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