The FAA has stymied congressional investigators, allowed Boeing to coach pilots so they performed better on simulator tests of the Boeing 737 MAX, and continued a decades-long pattern of punishing whistleblowers — all at the expense of the safety of millions of passengers,There are “numerous systemic deficiencies in FAA oversight,” that could put the flying public at risk, the report from the Senate Commerce Committee read.
Among the report's new findings are that in at least one incident, Boeing coached a test pilot who was being evaluated on how well he could react to various conditions involving a flight control feature called MCAS, whose faulty activation was implicated in the MAX crashes. And, according to the report, the FAA test pilot appears to have been complicit in that coaching, the report said.
The panel also said that the FAA has so far failed to fully comply with a congressional mandate to establish an aviation safety and whistleblower investigations office, and that some managers and even human resources professionals don't seem to understand what a whistleblower is or how to treat their complaints.
Can’t tell you how tired I am with this administration.
Things will change after Biden+Harris are sworn in. Stay calm.
And they are worse at regulating spaceflight. Only a matter of time before we lose a city to a fiery rocket explosion. FAA can't be in charge of regulating air safety AND promoting it. Those charters are contradictory
and charged extra for the second sensor.