FlyersRights Renews 737 MAX Challenge
Another day and another piece of evidence indicating that the Boeing 737 MAX is not as safe as it should be and that the FAA did not take safety seriously enough when working to unground the plane.
When ungrounding the 737 MAX in November 2020, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson proclaimed that the 737 MAX was completely safe, announcing that the FAA can “assure the global community that the 737 MAX is safe to operate.”1
Administrator Dickson repeated his promise from earlier in 2020 that “we have not left anything to chance here. I would put my own family on it, and we will fly on it.”2
Administrator Dickson also promised full transparency to Congress and the public, that it would know everything he knew before the plane was ungrounded. But Congress disagrees and the FAA has kept all substantive documents secret rejecting FlyerRights.org FOIA request and scores of others.
Accordingly from information that is publicly available, passengers should not trust the Boeing 737 MAX. And the FAA should not have ungrounded the plane without independent experts gain access to technical data and documents that convinced the FAA, once again, that the 737 MAX is safe.
We renew our challenge to the FAA to release the technical details of the fix to allow independent experts to evaluate the aircraft. By keeping these documents secret, the FAA is relying on a body of private law.
From a safety perspective, it is baffling how the FAA would address a known problem in undelivered aircraft before delivered aircraft flying thousands of passengers per day.
The need for these CMRs, like many other recent revelations, underscore how the FAA and Boeing need to deliver on their transparency pledges and release important technical documents to the public and independent experts. See Attachments 1 & 2 for current analysis of this AD by two highly qualified experts.
1 FAA lifts ban on Boeing 737 Max after crashes in 2018 and 2019 grounded the jet
2 CNBC Exclusive: FAA Administrator Steve Dickson Speaks with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Today
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