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Elodie MAZEIN<\/em><\/p>\nThe US Federal Aviation Administration, sharply criticized after the crashes of two Boeing planes in 2018 and 2019, is again being dragged into a maelstrom surrounding the major American aerospace manufacturer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The dramatic mid-flight blowout on January 5 of a fuselage panel on an Alaska Airlines plane precipitated the departures of a series of top Boeing officials \u2014 including CEO Dave Calhoun, who is set to step down at year\u2019s end \u2014 and the reduced production of the 737 MAX.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But as Boeing faces multiple inquiries and audits in the United States and abroad, it has repeatedly assured critics that it is working \u201cwith full transparency and under the oversight\u201d of FAA regulators.<\/p>\n
And the FAA, which itself has seen four bosses come and go since August 2019, has been unable to evade a share of the responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe FAA has to be held accountable as well,\u201d said Senator Richard Blumenthal, who heads a subcommittee investigating Boeing\u2019s safety practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the panel incident in January, the agency dispatched a team to inspect Boeing factories, and gave the firm 90 days to provide an \u201caction plan\u201d to address several problem areas.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Self-reporting \u2013<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the FAA is doing the best that they can and that they have greatly improved their surveillance of Boeing\u201d since the 2018 and 2019 crashes off Indonesia and in Ethiopia, which killed 346 people, said Jeff Guzzetti, an aviation consultant and former head of the agency\u2019s investigation division.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they did fail to catch production problems,\u201d he said, noting that for decades the FAA relied on manufacturers themselves to \u201cself-report problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FAA, short on money and personnel, has long delegated the job of quality assurance to pre-approved employees of the airplane manufacturers.<\/p>\n
That creates \u201ca conflict of interest,\u201d said Hassan Shahidi, president of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere needs to be a shift where the FAA has more direct responsibility for oversight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Like Guzzetti, he said he has seen some improvement but believes the FAA must dispatch more of its own inspectors \u2014 and not delegate so much regulatory authority to manufacturers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is going to take some time and it will need vigilance,\u201d Shahidi added.<\/p>\n
But the agency \u201cis on the right track now,\u201d said Richard Aboulafia, managing director of the AeroDynamic Advisory consultancy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nothing that can\u2019t be corrected with additional oversight and resources,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018Record\u2019 funding \u2013<\/p>\n
Those resources depend directly on the US Congress, and the Senate on Thursday approved a \u201crecord\u201d amount of agency funding for the next five years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to show (the public) that we are asking for, implementing and holding accountable the FAA to a gold standard for safety,\u201d said Senator Maria Cantwell, who chairs the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.<\/p>\n
The \u201crecord\u201d level of financing, Cantwell added, would allow the FAA to step up inspections.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It still needs House approval before President Joe Biden can sign it into law.<\/p>\n
Industry shortages of qualified personnel, from mechanics to engineers, were made worse by the pandemic, affecting every stage of manufacturing \u2014 from supply procurement to production and maintenance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to recruit and retain good craftsmen, even for Boeing,\u201d Guzzetti said.<\/p>\n
And the FAA has specifically struggled to fill its hiring needs because workers can find higher pay and better benefits in the private sector.<\/p>\n
Investigations into the 2018 and 2019 Boeing crashes showed that the company knowingly concealed from the FAA problems in a software system linked to the accidents, whistleblower Joe Jacobsen told Blumenthal\u2019s committee in mid-April.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jacobsen, who worked for the FAA for 25 years after 11 years with Boeing, said the agency had become \u201ctoo captive to Boeing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FAA falls under the US Transportation Department, whose inspector general in June 2022 opened an audit into the agency\u2019s supervision of 737 and 787 production. A final report is expected this summer.<\/p>\n
The inspector general\u2019s office already concluded in 2021 that \u201cweaknesses in FAA\u2019s certification and delegation processes hindered its oversight of the 737 MAX 8.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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