FAA – 90-day Deadline For Boeing Quality Fixes Approaching
The end of May is coming and with it, the deadline that the FAA gave Boeing, to present a plan to fix its quality control and safety culture.
Boeing continues to suffer from the aftermath of last January’s Alaska Airlines 737 MAX-9 door plug blowout. About a month after that event came the publication of a previously-commissioned, FAA report on Boeing’s safety culture. It made for troubling reading.
Photo: NTSBThe report suggested a six-month deadline, for Boeing to address its shortcomings. The FAA amended that requirement, giving Boeing just 90 days, to come up with a plan to address its safety culture and the quality control issues that the MAX-9 blowout brought to light.
Some analysts like Scott Hamilton in Leeham News reported on industry doubts that Boeing will meet that deadline. But either way, Boeing itself acknowledges that its predicament will last much longer than that.
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