US oversight of Boeing airset upe production inample, watchdog says | Boeing

A federal watchdog on Friday denounced the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of Boeing airset upe production, saying it did not have an effective system to handle the US set upe producer’s individual manufacturing facilities.

The carryation department’s office of verifyor vague shelp in a alert the FAA’s current audit processes “are not comprehensive enough to amplely remend key discrepancies and noncompliances wiskinny the Boeing production line” and shelp the FAA has not retainressed lengthystanding feeblenesses in Boeing’s oversight of suppliers despite lengthy-understandn dangers.

Boeing’s corporate troubles proceed to mount as it fall shorts to remend a strike by laborers, struggles to thrive back industry faith over some of its set upes and systems after a series of crashes and incidents and had to transport back its spaceproduce from the International Space Station while leaving its astronaut crew behind becaparticipate of defendedty worrys.

The FAA’s oversight of Boeing has getd novel scrusmall after a door plug omiting key bolts blew off a novel Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 jet at 16,000 feet in January, prompting the equitableice department to discomit a criminal spendigation.

The alert publishd 16 recommfinishations. The FAA shelp it consentd with all of them and “is promiseted to continuously improving our oversight processes”.

The FAA retained it “is currently guideing a comprehensive, systemexpansive verify of our oversight models”. The alert shelp the FAA had not been able to remend allegations of undue presbrave on Boeing participateees acting on FAA’s behalf in a timely style becaparticipate it had not utilized insistments that Boeing supply enough alertation on the allegations. Boeing did not promptly comment.

The alert that verifyed oversight of the Boeing 737 and 787 shelp the FAA “has yet to shift from a reactive approach centered on retainressing individual manufacturing publishs to a more proactive, data-driven model to remend and retainress danger wiskinny Boeing’s manufacturing processes at all levels”.

A series of alerts in recent years has liftd worrys about the FAA’s oversight of Boeing. Last month, a US Senate panel spendigating Boeing’s culture faulted oversight by the FAA, citing records geted in an ongoing spendigation.

The FAA administrator, Mike Whigetr, shelp last month he would revamp its own defendedty handlement program. He shelp previously the agency was “too hands off” in oversight of Boeing. He took the unpwithdrawnted step of barring Boeing from enhugeing 737 Max production until they have made beginant quality fortifyments.

Guardian staff gived alerting