Reuters: Flyers Group Challenges FAA Approval of Boeing 737 MAX Reuters: Flyers Group Challenges FAA Approval of Boeing 737 MAX … Read More
FlyersRights Fighting for Safety Reforms Yesterday, FlyersRights urged the Senate Commerce Committee to back legislation repealing the aircraft certification program known as ODA (Organization Designation Authorization) that allows Boeing employees and other aircraft makers to certify planes as safe with minimal FAA oversight. “The core of aircraft certification reform must be a return to the pre-2005 system. All aircraft safety… Read More
FLYERS RIGHTS v. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION We are moving forward! The court just issued a new scheduling order and rejected the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) proposal to “process” (but not necessarily release) the relevant 86 documents of 10,000 at 500 pages per month. Boeing and the FAA by 3/20/20 will now have to identify any documents it claims are exempt from… Read More
FAA “Lowered The Bar” In Approving SWA Hawaii Flights After months of bad 737 MAX revelations, now this. The U.S. government’s Office of the Special Counsel announced last week they are investigating the Federal Aviation Administration on how it handled the approval process to let Southwest Airlines fly between California and Hawaii, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Special Counsel’s office that found… Read More
FAA Hid Boeing’s Role in 2009 Turkish Airlines Crash An expert study that was never made public found that Boeing bore significant responsibility for a deadly 737 crash in 2009. The New York Times reviewed evidence that revealed strong parallels with recent 737 Max crashes. In the 2009 crash and in more recent crashes that killed 346 people, an automated command was triggered by… Read More
“This airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys” – said Boeing employees Embarrassing communications were sent to investigators last week, which included a comment that “this airplane is designed by clowns, who are in turn supervised by monkeys.” Internal emails and texts show Boeing employees were well aware of problems with the 737 MAX before the two deadly crashes, and that the company emphasized speed over safety… Read More
Another Boeing Blunder – 777x . We are worried the Boeing 777X could prove just as problematic as the MAX – because the MAX issues are now publicly well-known, whereas the 777x are hidden. There’s not much info about the 777x and what’s online is being distorted by Boeing in yet another coverup. The 777x could be worse than the… Read More
FAA Civil Aeronautics Medical Institute in Oklahoma City – seat space tests FlyersRights.org president Paul Hudson is visiting the FAA Civil Aeronautics Medical Institute in Oklahoma City. Initial impressions were that it has many advanced, under-utilized, and high tech facilities for air safety as part of a large campus for aviation training, testing and R&D. He noted there should be NO NEED to let Boeing and Airbus… Read More