Federal aviation regulators plan to increase oversight of air safety by this summer, the Transportation Dept.'s watchdog told lawmakers.
"The FAA decided to do safety on the cheap which is neither cheap nor safe and put the fox in charge of the hen house," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said at a hearing.
Lawmakers pressed officials on Boeing’s role in the airplane’s approval. Outside companies like Boeing routinely participate in some functions of the certification process. The Senate’s Commerce subcommittee’s hearing was the first since the U.S. joined dozens of other nations in grounding the planes earlier this month. Panel members are likely to raise questions about a plan for a software fix to the jets that Boeing said it gave the"We want to know how Boeing, how private companies, are involved in the FAA certification process," Sen.
Scovel said in his written testimony that the changes that will take effect by July 2019 are in response to a 2015 report from his office that said the FAA needed to improve its oversight of the aircraft certification process when aspects of it are delegated to third parties, such as aircraft manufacturers like Boeing.
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