Federal Aviation Administration investigates planemaker’s failure to disclose an inoperative warning light, which caused two aircraft to crash
An American Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 flight from Los Angeles approaches for landing at Reagan National Airport. Picture: REUTERS/JOSHUA ROBERTS
At the very least, the failure to disclose the inoperative warning light combined with other recent disclosures by the company — such as messages between employees mocking the FAA — have significantly soured the relationship between the Chicago-based manufacturer and its regulator. In comments during a December 11 house transportation and infrastructure committee hearing, Steve Dickson, who became FAA administrator in August, said he is considering action against Boeing for that and other issues. “I have expressed my disappointment to the Boeing leadership about that,” Dickson said at the hearing. “And so, I reserve the right to take further action and we very well may do that.
As a result, 80% of the 387 Maxes the company delivered to airlines did not have a working disagree light, according to Indonesia’s final report on the Lion Air crash off of Jakarta, which killed 189 on October 29 2018. A second crash, of an Ethiopian Airlines Group jetliner on March 10, killed 157 and resulted in the plane’s worldwide grounding.
Only after the Lion Air accident did the company inform the FAA. The company plans to ensure that the alert works on the planes before the grounding is lifted.
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