A Boeing logo design rests on the fuselage of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner airplane, produced by Boeing Co., as it bases on screen prior to the opening of the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, U.K., on Sunday, July 13, 2014.
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Two secret House Democrats are looking for records from Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration after production problems were discovered with the business’s 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner airplane.
The demand comes less than a year after the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure report knocked Boeing over the style and advancement of the 737 Max, and the FAA for oversight lapses. Two of those aircrafts crashed in between October 2018 and March 2019, eliminating all 346 individuals on the flights.
Boeing in 2015 stated it discovered incorrect spacing in some locations of the 787 fuselage. After evaluations and a five-month time out, it resumed shipments of the wide-body airplane in March. Separately, an electrical problem on Boeing’s very popular 737 Max grounded more than 100 of the aircrafts in April, though the FAA recently authorized a repair.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., chairman of the transport committee and Rick Larsen, D-Wash., chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation, stated they were looking for records on production-related problems and the FAA’s oversight of Boeing’s production operations.
DeFazio stated in a release that: “in light of these new and ongoing issues that point to problems in maintaining quality control and appropriate FAA oversight of production issues, I will thoroughly and deliberatively investigate any issues, such as those affecting the 737 MAX and the 787, that may endanger public safety.”
Boeing and the FAA didn’t right away comment. The FAA last month stated it was auditing Boeing’s procedure for making small style modifications in addition to the origins of the electrical problem on the 737 Max. That problem is not associated with the system linked in the 2 deadly crashes.
