While Boeing is eager to put behind it the consequences of the two fatal 737 MAX crashes, Democrats on the U.S. House Transportation Committee chaired by Rep. Peter DeFazio are pushing for more individual accountability for what went wrong at the company.
On Monday, DeFazio, D-Ore., and Rick Larsen, D-Everett, chair of the Aviation Subcommittee, asked Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson what actions the FAA has taken against individuals at Boeing responsible for two specific instances of apparent deception of customers and regulators during development of the MAX.
“We are deeply troubled by the absence of rigorous accountability for Boeing’s past transgressions related to the 737 MAX and the FAA’s failure to hold those who violated the public’s trust accountable,” the two wrote in a letter to Dickson.
The two cited instances are separate from those documented by the Department of Justice in its recent criminal indictment of former 737 MAX chief technical pilot Mark Forkner.
The letter asks specifically for the FAA to go after others at Boeing who have not been publicly identified. The company declined to comment Monday.
The first issue cited relates to a MAX flight deck alert designed to tell the pilots that the readings from the jet’s two angle of attack sensors disagreed. Boeing found out in 2017 that this alert was not functioning on the vast majority of MAXs. But it judged that the malfunction wasn’t a safety issue...
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