The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will appear before a House aviation panel amidst congressional investigations into the troubled Boeing 737 Max airliner and how it passed regulatory safety checks.
Acting FAA Administrator Daniel Elwell appears before a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing on commercial airline safety on March 27.
Elwell listed several reviews of the FAA’s handling of the matter, adding, however, that only the FAA would decide when the Max is safe enough to allow back in the air. Rep. Peter A. DeFazio criticized Boeing for pilot manuals that didn’t mention a new automated flight-control system implicated in both accidents, and for a design that pitched the plane’s nose down based on readings from a single sensor that could fail.DeFazio, who heads the full Transportation Committee, also said Boeing hasn’t yet provided documents that he and Larsen requested, saying he hoped the company would provide them voluntarily and soon.
The Dallas Morning News reported that American Airlines pilots pressed Boeing in November — shortly after the first Max crash — on potentially grounding the planes and pushed for a quick software fix from the plane maker.“We don’t want to do a crappy job of fixing things, and we also don’t want to fix the wrong things,” a Boeing employee responded, according to a recording reviewed by the newspaper.
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