US aviation authority blasted over 737 MAX redesign approval

The tragedies led to the airliner being grounded and a step-up in oversight of Boeing from the FAA and international regulators.

But the FAA came in for harsh criticism from the JATR, which said there was"an inadequate number of FAA specialists" in place to oversee a new design of the 737 MAX and they"had inadequate awareness" of the system implicated in the crashes.Their damning 69-page report also found that Boeing had put pressure on some of its staff who had FAA authority to pass the updated designs.

In response to the report, FAA Administrator Steven Dickson said:"Today's unprecedented US safety record was built on the willingness of aviation professionals to embrace hard lessons and to seek continuous improvement. "We welcome this scrutiny and are confident that our openness to these efforts will further bolster aviation safety worldwide. The accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia are a somber reminder that the FAA and our international regulatory partners must strive to constantly strengthen aviation safety."

To all Engineers that read this, we have a moral duty to ensure that all the machines/structures we built is very safe to use. This may at times cost you your job an reputation. Remember, a surgeon makes a mistake one patient dies, engineers makes mistakes?

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