Two deadly crashes involving the Boeing 737 MAX are increasing questions about a program that delegates regulatory tasks to industry employees
“There’s no question the certification process was fast-tracked, that Boeing wanted this plane in the air as quickly as possible,” said lobbyist Peter Goelz, a former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, the independent federal agency that investigates airline accidents. “And the FAA is not designed for speedy decision-making. That’s not what they do. And I think that is a very legitimate question.
Some experts expressed skepticism about undoing the program at this point, given the sheer number of industry employees acting as the FAA’s eyes and ears while on private companies’ payrolls. the safest in the history of U.S. air travel, with only one fatality in a domestic passenger airline accident“FAA has never allowed companies to police themselves or self-certify their aircraft,” the agency said in a statement Wednesday. “With strict FAA oversight, delegation extends the rigor of the FAA certification process to other recognized professionals, thereby multiplying the technical expertise focused on assuring an aircraft meets FAA standards.
“These people are essentially the arm of the FAA,” Ray Conner, at the time president and CEO of Boeing’s commercial division,the House Transportation Committee in a 2015 hearing. “Although they are paid by us, they are within our organization, they are approved individually by the FAA. They carry the FAA authority, in essence. And we take that very, very seriously.”
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