A U.S. Federal Aviation Administration decision to bring in-house final checks on four Boeing Co 787 jets is the latest signal of the agency's tougher scrutiny of the embattled U.S. airplane manufacturer.
A September U.S. House report into the two crashes faulted"grossly insufficient oversight by the FAA.""With all the accusations of an overly-close relationship between and Boeing, they're eager to emphasize that they're deploying more resources for inspections, exercising more authority, and scrutinizing work more closely," said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with Teal Group.
"If the FAA is increasing oversight, that says they have been exposed to things that should not have happened," said Peter Lemme, a former Boeing engineer and consultant. Last month, the planemaker agreed to pay US$6.6 million to the FAA as part of a settlement over quality and safety-oversight lapses going back years.
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