Under pressure from the victims’ families, Congress passed new laws to require more training and more hours of rest for pilots. What, in the FAA’s role in all of these events, speaks to the goal of creating the world’s safest aerospace system? Now, the FAA’s oversight is being called into question again over its approval of the Boeing 737 Max, which had been rushed into production for competitive reasons. Pilots had complained about insufficient training and on Friday, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., wrote to the agency’s acting administrator question the FAA’s approval procedures and its transparency. These are important investigations that go to the heart of the FAA’s mission.

Source: Ethiopian News March 26, 2019 00:56 UTC