Boeing's Next Jet Has Safety Concerns, but FAA Says It's OK

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Beyond the serious issues involving the Boeing 737 MAX-8, which has suffered two fatal crashes in five months, the next version of the MAX series, the MAX-10, is also at the center of safety concerns. And those concerns again involve how Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration work together to certify the safety of new airplanes.

The crashes have renewed alarms about the extent to which the FAA has delegated certification of the new jets to Boeing.

A report in The Seattle Times said that FAA managers “pushed the agency’s safety engineers to delegate safety assessments to Boeing itself.” This comes as The Wall Street Journal also reports that the Transportation Department’s Inspector General has opened an investigation into how the new systems in the MAX-8 were analyzed and certified. The systems suspected of bringing down flights in Indonesia and last week in Ethiopia work to prevent stalling in midair.

Concerns about the MAX-10, meanwhile, focus on its ability to meet the strict standards set for evacuation in the event of an emergency: flight attendants have just 90 seconds in which a cabin must be evacuated. Every new airplane must pass tests conducted by the manufacturer and overseen by the FAA that demonstrate such a speedy evacuation.

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1. How can Boeing be such a screwed up corporate mess after

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all of these years in the aviation industry. I blame the executive management for not doing their job of maintaining the high quality standards necessary in this business.