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In a speech on 23 September at the ” Boeing 737 MAX Status Meeting with Aviation Regulators in Montreal” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson updated the assembled on the FAA certification process for the 737 Max.
The 737 Max was grounded following two aircraft crashes, one in Indonesia when Lion Air’s 737 fell out of the sky and the other in Ethiopia when an Air Ethiopia 737 also crashed inexplicably on take off.
Dickson noted that the process isn’t limited to one country, ” “Travelers demand the same high level of safety no matter where they fly,” he said. “It is up to us as aviation regulators to deliver on this shared responsibility.”
Dickson pledged to share information in a transparent manner all information concerning the flight control systems of the 737 MAX and how the FAA welcomes feedback so as to enable a cycle of continuous improvement.
Dickson concluded with how the FAA’s first priority is safety and that the FAA has no timeframe they are working within as they move forward in their review of the software changes implemented, with each country to make their own decision on when the 737 Max may return to the air.
