{"id":647826,"date":"2025-09-25T10:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647826"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:04:38","slug":"senator-richard-blumenthal-calls-us-aviation-regulators-3-1m-boeing-fine-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/senator-richard-blumenthal-calls-us-aviation-regulators-3-1m-boeing-fine-inadequate\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Richard Blumenthal calls US aviation regulator\u2019s $3.1m Boeing fine \u2018inadequate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic US Senator Richard Blumenthal said the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s proposed $3.1 million fine against Boeing for a series of safety violations is inadequate and wants the agency to explain how it calculated the penalty. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For Boeing, such fines are easily absorbed as the cost of doing business, not a meaningful deterrent to dangerous behavior,&#8221; Blumenthal wrote in a letter sent on Tuesday and released on Wednesday to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, an appointee of Republican President Donald Trump. &#8220;Unless penalties rise to the level that forces the company to invest in real safety reforms, the risks to the flying public will persist.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic US Senator Richard Blumenthal said the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s proposed $3.1 million fine against Boeing for a series of safety violations is inadequate and wants the agency to explain how it calculated the penalty. &#8220;For Boeing, such fines are easily absorbed as the cost of doing business, not a meaningful deterrent to dangerous behavior,&#8221; Blumenthal wrote in a letter sent on Tuesday and released on Wednesday to FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford, an appointee of Republican President Donald Trump. &#8220;Unless penalties rise to the level that forces the company to invest in real safety reforms, the risks to the flying [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647826","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=647826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}