Critics say too much authority was given to Boeing, which allowed circumstances leading to the fatal crashes. The FAA has been criticized for a process called Organization Delegation Authorization that allows it to delegate parts of its certification process to manufacturers. The aircraft has been grounded since March, and while Boeing has been optimistic it will be able to return the fleet to service before the new year, Dickson predicted to CNBC Wednesday that the process of recertifying the aircraft would stretch into 2020. He said the report “should have rung alarm bells and apparently it didn’t and we’re going to be getting into that.” After the Ethiopia crash, in March 2019, a second risk management assessment led it to ground the aircraft, according to the statement.ĭeFazio said the first report should have grounded the plane. “There is not supposed to be an airplane certified in the United States of America or anywhere,” he said, with a system “that’s going to cause a crash.”

The agency downplayed the importance of the assessment, saying in a written statement Wednesday that it used the report to validate its decision to issue a directive warning pilots about the steering system after the first crash of the Lion Air jet. DeFazio, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which Wednesday grilled FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson as part of the committee’s fifth hearing investigating two deadly crashes involving the Boeing 737 Max.

“The FAA rolled the dice on the safety of the traveling public,” said Rep.

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