Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger on where the FAA and Boeing went wrong: 'For too many years, the FAA has not been provided budgets sufficient to ensure appropriate oversight of a rapidly growing global aviation industry.'
This nation’s aviation regulatory body, the Federal Aviation Administration , has long been the gold standard of safety regulation in global aviation, often a template for other nations to follow in technical and safety matters.But now, our credibility as leaders in aviation is being damaged.
Let me be clear, without effective leadership and support from political leaders in the administration, the FAA does not have sufficient independence to be able to do its job, which is to keep air travelers and crews safe. Oversight must mean accountability, or it means nothing. After the crash of Lion Air 610 last October, it was apparent that this new risk needed to be effectively addressed. It has been reported that Boeing pushed back in discussions with the FAA about the extent of changes that would be required, and after the second crash, of Ethiopian 302, the Boeing CEO reached out to the U.S. President to try to keep the 737 Max 8 from being grounded in the U.S. The new fix still has not been fielded, nearly five months after Lion Air.
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