The Federal Aviation Administration must take additional action to address aviation safety and oversight issues revealed by the deadly Boeing 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019, according to a whistleblower report released Monday by Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
The report highlights the accounts of seven named aviation safety whistleblowers, with their permission. The report suggests that, despite the passage of the bipartisan Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act in December 2020, “systemic problems continue to exist, including understaffed FAA offices charged with certification oversight responsibility for manufacturers and the continued risk of undue pressure under the FAA’s system of delegated authority.”
FRONTLINE and The New York Times examined how commercial pressures, problematic design and failed oversight allowed Boeing’s 737 Max planes to make it into the air in the September 2021 documentary Boeing’s Fatal Flaw. The film featured the first on-camera interview with Joe Jacobsen, an FAA engineer from 1995 to 2021 and one of the whistleblowers whose allegations form the backbone of the Senate report.
Jacobsen told FRONTLINE in the documentary that, after the first Boeing 737 Max crash in 2018, he reviewed the downed plane’s black box data and quickly raised concerns about the Max’s safety.
“I talked to three managers, said this is a design flaw,” Jacobsen said, referring to a system on the...
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