Federal investigators looking into Boeing 737 Max after two crashes in less than five months
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The FAA and Boeing declined to comment on the work of federal investigators. As with all legal matters, “we do not comment even as to whether such matters exist,” a Boeing spokesman said. The company had said earlier that the FAA’s certification requirements for the 737 Max aircraft were “identical” to those that “governed certification of all previous new airplanes and derivatives.”
The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, first reported that a grand jury in Washington had issued a subpoena to at least one person involved in the development of the 737 Max. The Journal also said a second inquiry by the Transportation Department’s inspector general is focused on the Seattle-area office of the FAA charged with certifying aircraft as well as an office that mandates training requirements.
“I suspect even though there will be some similarities, [the crashes] won’t be mirror images of each other,” Rooney said. “No two accidents are exactly the same.” On Sunday, Ethiopia Transport Minister Dagmawit Moges said the condition of the data and voice recorders was good and that enough data had been recovered that her ministry’s Accident Investigation Bureau would release a preliminary report in 30 days on what happened to Flight 302.
FAA officials last week also cited satellite tracking data as a key similarity. The planes in both cases ascended and descended multiple times before crashing, experts said.
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