{"id":265057,"date":"2019-03-19T05:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T05:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=265057"},"modified":"2019-03-19T05:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T05:36:06","slug":"boeing-had-too-much-sway-over-safety-approvals-of-new-planes-and-faa-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-had-too-much-sway-over-safety-approvals-of-new-planes-and-faa-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing had too much sway over safety approvals of new planes and FAA knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAA employees warned as early as seven years ago that Boeing Co. had too much sway over safety approvals of new aircraft, prompting an investigation by Department of Transportation auditors who confirmed the agency hadn\u2019t done enough to \u201chold Boeing accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 investigation also found that discord over Boeing\u2019s treatment had created a \u201cnegative work environment\u201d among Federal Aviation Administration employees who approve new and modified aircraft designs, with many of them saying they\u2019d faced retaliation for speaking up. Their concerns predated the 737 Max development. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, a person familiar with the 737 Max said the Transportation Department\u2019s Inspector General was examining the plane\u2019s design certification before the second of two deadly crashes of the almost brand-new aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAA employees warned as early as seven years ago that Boeing Co. had too much sway over safety approvals of new aircraft, prompting an investigation by Department of Transportation auditors who confirmed the agency hadn\u2019t done enough to \u201chold Boeing accountable.\u201d The 2012 investigation also found that discord over Boeing\u2019s treatment had created a \u201cnegative work environment\u201d among Federal Aviation Administration employees who approve new and modified aircraft designs, with many of them saying they\u2019d faced retaliation for speaking up. Their concerns predated the 737 Max development. On Sunday night, a person familiar with the 737 Max said the Transportation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}