By Scott HamiltonCommentaryFeb. 26, 2024, © Leeham News: There’s no getting around the culpability of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Boeing, and Spirit AeroSystems in the current 737 MAX mess. Nor was there any doubt about the culpability of the FAA and Boeing in the first MAX crisis in 2018-2019. Because Congress for decades failed to appropriate the bucks needed for the FAA to do its job without overreliance on Boeing or Spirit. By contrast, the FAA moved with lightning speed in 2013 to ground the Boeing 787. Since the MAX crisis, certification of the 777X will be at least six years later than planned and a big write-off has been taken.

Source: Ethiopian News February 26, 2024 12:09 UTC