Watch this tense exchange as lawmakers grilled FAA Administrator Steve Dickson over 737 Max security concerns.
The December 2018 document was released during a House hearing on the 737 Max certification.
The internal FAA review, dated Dec. 3, 2018, said 15 fatal crashes of the 737 Max were possible if there were no changes made to flight-control software that was implicated in both crashes, over the course of the plane's lifetime, which would last decades. Boeing said in a statement that the FAA found the measures the manufacturer and agency took after Lion Air "sufficed to allow continued operation of the MAX fleet until changes to the ... software could be implemented." The company added that Boeing's risk analysis matched the FAA's conclusions about the aircraft's risks.
"My highest priority is to make sure something like this never happens again," FAA Administrator Steve Dickson, who started a five-year term at the helm of the agency in August, said at the House hearing. Aircraft groundings "illustrate what we have done historically we cannot be satisfied with. We've got to continue to put process improvements in place."
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