US aviation safety regulators found Boeing Co. failed to comply with manufacturing quality control requirements on “multiple” occasions, according to an audit launched in response to response a harrowing near-disaster involving a new Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 jet in January.
The shortfalls were found at both Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc., which makes most of the 737’s fuselage, the Federal Aviation Administration said a statement on Monday.
The US regulator sent more than a dozen inspectors into Boeing’s factories as well of those of Spirit after a fuselage panel exploded out of the airborne Alaska Airlines jet on Jan. 5.
