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The U.S. Office of the Inspector General of Transportation said Tuesday it will review the decision of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in November to unravel the Boeing 737 MAX and other agency decisions.
The 737 MAX was grounded in March 2019 after two accidents in Indonesia and Ethiopia killed 346 people within five months. The FAA has approved its return to service after developing significant safety improvements during the aircraft’s 20-month grounding.
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During the new audit, the Inspector General’s Office will investigate the FAA’s actions following the two accidents, including the agency’s risk assessments, the grounding of the aircraft and the subsequent reaffirmation. Boeing declined to comment.
The Office of the Inspector General added that “its purpose is to evaluate the FAA’s processes and procedures for grounding aircraft and implementing corrective actions.”
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The FAA said it would “fully cooperate with the Inspector General’s audit, as it did with all other reviews of the agency’s oversight of the Boeing 737 MAX.”
FAA administrator Steve Dickson told Reuters in November he was “100% confident” in the safety of the 737 MAX.
The FAA has set new training requirements to handle an important safety system called MICAS, which was blamed for the two fatal accidents, as well as important new warranties and other software changes to ensure that the system is not activated incorrectly.
| Ticker | Safety | Last | Alter | Alter% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA | THE BOEING CO. | 234.06 | -9.97 | -4.09% |
The Inspector General issued two previous reports on the 737 MAX, including one in February setting out ‘weaknesses’ in the FAA’s certification of the aircraft.
The legislation, signed in December, revamped the FAA’s aircraft certification program and required an independent review of Boeing’s safety culture.
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Boeing agreed in January to a $ 2.5 billion settlement with the Department of Justice as part of a postponed prosecution agreement after the government said the crashes were “fraudulent and fraudulent behavior by employees of one of the world’s leading commercial exposed aircraft manufacturers. “
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler, Peter Cooney and Jane Wardell)