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Foundation for Aviation Safety's Ed Pierson, a former senior manager at Boeing, joined ABC7's "Getting Answers" to discuss 737 Max safety.
Boeing's 737 MAX-9 faces increased scrutiny due to a configuration issue, potentially damaging the MAX brand and impacting European airlines, particularly Ryanair, a major Boeing customer.
Deliver." boeing today issued inspection guidelines for every airline that flies the max 9. as the faa reiterated, the max 9s will remain grounded until airlines complete enhanced inspections which include both left and right cabin door exit plugs. that takes four to eight hours each. corrective actions must be completed before any plane returns to service. meanwhile, boeing's ceo has called a companywide tuesday meeting to focus on safety. this max 9 emergency comes after two fatal max 8 crashes that grounded the plane. loose bolts on the max rudder system, production and quality control dela...
And they have performed all that. but, part of the deferred prosecution agreement that boeing signed was that they will have no further violations similar to what was encountered on the max 8 program. and that included charges by the faa and others that they were not truthful with the faa, that they misled the faa on the certification of the max. and that's a pretty damning allegation. remember that it's an allegation. they were not charged, convicted, or tried. so it remains an allegation. >> we're lucky to have your expertise at times like this. mary, thank you so much. really appreciate it....
But it came forward and then it got sucked back out very dramatically. >> two more notes on what to look forward to in the hours to come today. john lovell is going to be the investigator in charge of this scene. he confirmed with us yesterday that he represented the united states, fred, in terms of helping ethiopian authorities back in 2019 to investigate the crash of the max 8 that claimed, of course, scores and scores of lives. and also the flight data recorders are going to be sent from this side of the country to ntsb headquarters in washington, d.c., to see if any information can be glea...