Air safety and the prestige of a giant are at stake. The United States Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) announced that it has opened an investigation into Boeing after an incident on a 737 Max 9 forced it to make an emergency landing when a part of the cabin fell off. The agency is investigating whether the company failed to meet standards in aircraft construction.
“This situation should never have occurred and cannot happen again,” the government agency noted in its statement. One of the things that has surprised the most is the calmness that the passengers affected by the incident maintained.
The administration indicated that it had already informed the manufacturing company about its decision. This investigation will investigate whether Boeing failed to certify that the finished and delivered products conformed to their approved design and were capable of operating safely and in accordance with FAA regulations.
There was a previous order in which it was established that more than two hundred aircraft were to remain on the ground, awaiting inspection, especially from Alaska Airlines and United Airlines, the companies that have the most aircraft of this model. Their experts detected in other devices that the screws were loose or loose in the same part of the device that jumped in mid-flight last Friday, ten minutes after taking off from Portland (Florida), where it returned without further incidents for the travelers and crew. than the scare.
“The investigation is the result of an incident on a Boeing 737 Max 9, which lost a sealed door and other additional discrepancies were detected,” the FAA statement specified. “Boeing’s manufacturing practices must meet high safety standards. that they are legally responsible for complying with,” the federal regulator insisted.
Boeing Chief Executive Dave Calhoun told employees at a meeting this week that the aerospace giant acknowledged its “mistake” and would be transparent in its efforts to get the 737 Max 9 back into the air after concerns were overcome.
“Our first approach is to recognize our mistake and we are going to do this approach with 100% transparency in each of the steps we take,” Calhoun stressed.
Boeing already had to ground the entire world fleet of 737 Max 8 models for a long period of time after two tragedies, with 346 deaths, in separate accidents suffered by two of its devices in a few months, between 2018 and 2019.
