FAA Will Allow Boeing to Resume Certifying Its Planes Are Airworthy After Years of Safety Efforts
The change follows months of review and shifts certification duties back to Boeing while FAA inspectors keep overseeing factories.
- On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Boeing will resume self-certifying its 737 Max and 787 planes starting next week, determining the company's final safety checks are sufficiently rigorous to ensure airworthiness.
- Regulators revoked Boeing's authority to self-certify its Max jets in 2019 following two fatal crashes, and stripped the same rights for Dreamliners in 2022 due to ongoing production quality concerns.
- Over the past year, production limits for the Max have increased from 38 to 47 per month following a midflight panel detachment on an Alaska Airlines flight in January 2024.
- "Safety drives everything we do," FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said, noting government inspectors will remain in Boeing factories to focus on identifying potential manufacturing defects earlier in production.
- Boeing will continue working under agency oversight to build high-quality aircraft complying with all certification requirements, following the shift from joint weekly safety checks conducted since September.
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FAA Now Lets Boeing Self-Certify 737 MAX & 787, Decide If They're Safe To Fly
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is once again letting Boeing consistently issue airworthiness certificates for new 737 MAXs and 787s, years after that was yanked due to production quality issues. This is good news from an efficiency standpoint, but can Boeing be trusted? FAA allows Boeing to issue airworthiness certificates again Effective immediately, the FAA is once again allowing Boeing to issue its own airworthiness certificates fo…
FAA restores Boeing's right to self-certify 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner aircraftThe FAA has allowed Boeing to once again independently issue airworthiness certificates for the 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner aircraft. The decision will take effect on July 20 after a data analysis and safety assessment.
Boeing thus regains the confidence of the American regulator for the certification of its aircraft.
FAA restores Boeing authority to certify 737 MAX, 787 planes
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it will allow Boeing to issue airworthiness certificates for all 737 MAX and 787 airplanes starting next week, a significant milestone for the U.S. ...
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