The FAA has mandated Boeing provide a comprehensive action plan within 90 days to address systemic quality-control issues and meet safety standards, following incidents like the 737 Max 9 door plug blowout.
The agency is significantly increasing its oversight of Boeing's manufacturing processes and production lines, including subcontractors, and has denied Boeing's request to increase 737 Max 9 production.
These actions are informed by an expert review panel report that criticized Boeing's safety culture, noting that employees fear retaliation for raising safety concerns.
The FAA is giving Boeing 90 days to come up with a “comprehensive action plan to address its systemic quality-control issues to meet FAA’s nonnegotiable safety standards.”
According to an FAA statement, the agency and top officials from Boeing spent Tuesday in a safety discussion at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
