He added there should be a “basic shift” in Boeing’s security tradition.
“We’ve been an excessive amount of in reactive mode, ready for some occasion to happen and analyzing the occasion to search out out what to do in a different way. So we’re shifting to a way more proactive strategy. On the manufacturing facet, it’s introducing inspectors and developing with clear indices to watch efficiency,” Whitaker stated.
Whitaker stated the FAA has “further inspections at important factors of the manufacturing course of.”
On Might 30, Boeing delivered a complete high quality enchancment plan to the FAA after Whitaker in late February gave Boeing 90 days to develop a complete plan to handle “systemic quality-control points.”
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board stated earlier the door panel that flew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet mid-flight was lacking 4 key bolts and no paperwork exists for the removing of these bolts. Whitaker confirmed no paperwork exists.
The Justice Division has opened a legal probe into the MAX 9 incident.
