EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
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EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
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Re: EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
#2I think this isn't just a test of Boeing, it's a test of the FAA. If the EASA finds issues that the FAA didn't (either because they were missed, or not brought up), that'll hurt the FAA's reputation even more.
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#3Good. The FAA should have realized their insistence that the 737 Max was safe to fly despite evidence otherwise was likely to shake both confidence and respect for them as a regulatory body. It shouldn't have taken the intervention of the President for them to do their job.
Time for them to reap what they've sown.
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#4The EASA says there is “still no appropriate response to Angle of Attack integrity issues.”
I can’t believe they haven’t got a plan yet!
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#5This is the long term cost of the defunding of the FAA and delegation of certifying a company's aircraft to that company. As we move forward fewer and fewer other countries will feel that deferring to US agencies is the wrong call and will move to (in this case) EASA.
I wouldn't be surprised if more and more other countries start looking into approvals from US agencies, and investigating how independent those agencies actually are :-/
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#6The EASA says there is “still no appropriate response to Angle of Attack integrity issues.” I can’t believe they haven’t got a plan yet!
I wish we had a graph of their attrition rate since the incidents occurred
Re: EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
#7Frankly, this is good IMO. It should also go in reverse. The FAA should have to independently certify Airbus/Embraer too.
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#8Why wouldn't they? The FAA has lost its credibility and can now be considered a subsidiary of Boeing.
Re: EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
#9Good. The FAA should have realized their insistence that the 737 Max was safe to fly despite evidence otherwise was likely to shake both confidence and respect for them as a regulatory body. It shouldn't have taken the intervention of the President for them to do their job. Time for them to reap what they've sown.
> It shouldn't have taken the intervention of the President for them to do their job.
That's your takeaway of what happened?
My takeaway is that the president 'intervened' only after it was clear that the combined Boeing/FAA/US position became untenable after other regions local air authorities and airlines declared the plane unfit to fly.
Trump threw the FAA under the bus to make himself look good, but the weeks before he was pressuring them to keep the planes flying on behalf of Boeing.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/surprise-trump-kept-...
Re: EASA Insists on Testing Boeing 737 Max Itself Before Lifting Ban
#10Frankly, this is good IMO. It should also go in reverse. The FAA should have to independently certify Airbus/Embraer too.
I would argue this should be dependent on the level of self certification, which EASA allows Airbus.
As this pustule of a scandal more and more pops out it turns out that Boeing essentially rubber stamped its own certificates.
I'm not sure about the level Airbus is allowed to do that.