A panel of international air safety regulators on Friday harshly criticized the ...
The JATR draft recommendations, obtained by Reuters ahead of their release on Friday, also said the FAA’s longstanding practice of delegating “a high level” of certification tasks to manufacturers such as Boeing needs significant reform to ensure adequate safety oversight.
The report also questioned FAA’s limited staffing to oversee certification tasks it designated to Boeing and said there were an “inadequate number of FAA specialists” involved in the certification of the 737 MAX. FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said in a statement he would look at the panel’s recommendations and take appropriate action following the “unvarnished and independent review of the certification of the Boeing 737 MAX.”The U.S. planemaker has stopped short of admitting any fault in how it developed the 737 MAX, or MCAS, which repeatedly pushed the plane’s nose down in the Indonesian and Ethiopian crashes while the pilots struggled to intervene.
JATR said MCAS and those systems could be considered a stall identification or stall protection system, depending on how the aircraft handled without them. If MCAS does operate it can only operate once unless the problem had been “completely resolved,” he added.
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