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FAA's approval of Boeing 737 Max under probe
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IANS | 19 Mar, 2019
The US Transportation Department's Inspector General has opened an
investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) approval
of Boeing's 737 Max planes which were involved in two deadly crash just
five months apart, The Wall Street Journal said in a report.
The
Journal's report on Sunday comes a week after the 737 Max planes were
grounded for an indefinite period globally following the two deadly
accidents involving the aircraft model, CNN reported.
The first
accident was the March 10 crash of the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines
flight 302 that took place just six minutes after it took-off from Addis
Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
The second crash
occurred last October when a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 - the same type
of plane - plunged into the Java Sea minutes into the flight from
Jakarta and killed all its 189 people.
The investigation will be
focused on an automatic safety system implicated in the October crash,
CNN quoted the Journal as saying citing a US government official.
It is unknown if the Ethiopian Airlines crash will play any role in this investigation or not.
The Transportation Department is yet to comment on the development.
Following
the probe announcement, the FAA said in a statement, that its "aircraft
certification processes are well established and have consistently
produced safe aircraft designs".
Meanwhile, both the crashes,
which occurred five months apart, remain under investigation by the
Indonesia and Ethiopia governments, with the assistance from the US and
Boeing.
The Ethiopian Minister of Transport said on Sunday that
preliminary data recovered from the black boxes showed "similarities"
between the two accidents.
A preliminary report of the Lion Air
crash revealed that the pilots fought with the automatic safety system,
known as the manoeuvring characteristics augmentation system (MCAS), for
control of the jet.
Meanwhile, Boeing announced on Monday that
it was working with the FAA to finalise a software update related to the
MCAS system to make the planes safer. The company plans to have the
update mandated no later than April, CNN reported.
"We also
continue to provide technical assistance at the request of and under the
direction of the National Transportation Safety Board, the US
Accredited Representative working with Ethiopian investigators," Boeing
CEO Dennis Muilenburg said in a statement.
According to
Muilenburg, the company "continues to support the investigation, and is
working with the authorities to evaluate new information as it becomes
available".
"Safety is our highest priority as we design, build
and support our airplanes. As part of our standard practice following
any accident, we examine our aircraft design and operation, and when
appropriate, institute product updates to further improve safety," he
added.
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