America’s aviation regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has started investigating the incident of emergency door flying in the air on Alaska Airlines flight on January 5 last week. This aircraft was Boeing’s 737 Max 9.
Did Boeing’s plane meet standards?
The FAA says Boeing’s production must meet the demanding safety standards for which it is accountable. The regulator issued a statement saying ‘This incident should never have happened, and it cannot happen again.’ According to the news published in Bloomberg – FAA said that it will be investigated whether Boeing failed to manufacture the product according to its approved design and whether it was in a condition for safe use according to FAA regulations.
This investigation by FAA has increased the problems for American aircraft manufacturing company Boeing. On January 5, this heart-wrenching accident happened in Alaska Airlines flight number 1282, when at an altitude of 16 thousand feet, the door of the plane got torn off from the fuselage and flew into the air. At that time, the plane had just taken off from Portland, Oregon with 177 passengers, when this accident happened, fortunately no passenger or crew member was harmed on this plane.
‘Investigation will reach many factories’
Former FAA Accident Investigation Chief Jay Guzzetti said, ‘The FAA’s announcement and letter indicate that the agency is prepared to conduct a very thorough investigation of Boeing’s aircraft and its production quality, which is not good for Boeing. It will happen, because due to this the company may have to face serious civil penalty.
Guzzetti said, ‘This investigation will not be limited to Boeing’s 737 Max factory near Seattle, but will also extend to other plants, including the plant in Charleston, South Carolina, where the 787 widebody is assembled. Also included are major suppliers like Spirit AeroSystems, which manufactures the body of the 737.
FAA wrote a letter, Boeing said will fully cooperate
The FAA said in a letter to Boeing regarding its decision that it was informed about ‘additional problems’ on the remaining 737 Max 9 aircraft after the crash, although it did not provide any details, whereas Boeing said. Said that he would ‘cooperate fully and transparently’ in the investigation.
This move by the FAA has increased the problems for Boeing, because the company is already facing investigation over the quality of its planes, after the Alaska Airlines accident, regulators have stopped 171,737 Max 9 planes from flying. Due to which Max 9 operators had to cancel hundreds of flights.
