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U.S regulator’s audit outlines Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems failures
March 6th 2024
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a six-week audit of Boeing and its supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, found “multiple instances where the companies allegedly failed to comply with manufacturing quality control requirements”. Read More » The regulator conducted the audit after a mid-exit door plug separated from the fuselage of an inflight Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 on January 5. “The FAA identified non-compliance issues in Boeing’s manufacturing process control, parts handling and storage and product control,” the FAA said. “In a meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington D.C. last week, Administrator Mike Whitaker informed Boeing’s CEO and other senior leaders the company must address the audit’s findings as part of its comprehensive corrective action plan to fix systemic quality-control issues. The plan also must address the findings of the expert review panel report that examined Boeing’s safety culture. The FAA has given Boeing 90 days to outline its action plan and added its investigation into the cause of the Alaska Airlines incident was ongoing.
