Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington pledged a bill responding to the latest Boeing safety mess by year’s end.
Two Senate panels looking into safety lapses at Boeing revealed more shocking allegations Wednesday about problems at the planemaker and fresh questions about the Federal Aviation Administration’s capacity to oversee it.
“My boss said, ‘I would have killed someone who said what you said in a meeting,’” Salehpour told members of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Boeing has been tussling for weeks with the National Transportation Safety Board, an independent agency that is probing what went wrong during a January incident in whichBut Ed Pierson, a former Boeing engineer who is now executive director of the Foundation for Aviation Safety, said Wednesday the records do exist — and that he had turned them over to the FBI.
Boeing, which declined an invitation to testify at the hearing, has maintained that both aircraft are safe to fly and that the company prohibits retaliation. Dillinger mentioned protocols at NASA create a culture of “psychological safety” that could also be adopted at aerospace manufacturers when they see subpar or inefficient work.Javier de Luis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s department of aeronautics and astronautics testifies on Capitol Hill with Dillinger and Najmedin Meshkation on Wednesday. | Kevin Wolf/AP
“The company must commit to real and profound improvements and we will hold them accountable every step of the way,” the agency said. But Joe Jacobsen, who retired from the FAA in 2021, told senators that the message he heard at the agency after Congress passed that law was “we’re already doing all of this.”Senators had few ideas for how to fix the problem
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