The FAA is facing bipartisan outrage. Senators have accused the agency of 'stonewalling' congressional investigators and keeping them 'in the dark' in their effort to examine what went wrong in certifying Boeing's troubled 737 Max airplane.
of last year, killing a total of 346 people, and the commercial jet by regulators around the world ever since.
Asked by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz if Boeing lied to the FAA about the flight control system known as MCAS and downplayed safety concerns, Dickson said,"I can't say. Definitely there was incomplete information and fragmented information that was provided, no doubt." "So unknown somebodies made unspecified mistakes for which there were no repercussions," Cruz said."What mistakes were made and who made them?"
One change would require the FAA to select the manufacturer's employees for the ODA program, instead of relying on companies like Boeing to pick them.Dickson acknowledged in the hearing that,"We need to have strong oversight of the ODA." But he told the senators that changing who selects company insiders to do that safety work"is not something that I believe would add to the safety of the process.
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