{"id":4350,"date":"2019-04-22T20:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T01:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2019-04-22T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T01:29:12","slug":"u-s-names-experts-to-boeing-certification-review-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4350","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Names Experts to Boeing Certification Review Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said on Monday she named four experts to a blue-ribbon committee to review the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aircraft certification process after two deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes killed nearly 350 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chao said she was naming NASA’s former aviation safety program director Amy Pritchett and Gretchen Haskins, chief executive of HeliOffshore Ltd, an international expert in aviation safety and a former U.S. Air Force officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also named Kenneth Hylander, chief safety officer at Amtrak and a former senior safety executive at Delta and Northwest airlines, and J. David Grizzle, chairman of the board of Republic Airways and a former FAA chief counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The committee is “specifically tasked to review the 737 MAX 800 certification process from 2012 to 2017, and recommend improvements to the certification process.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. lawmakers have criticized the FAA’s program that allows Boeing Co and other manufacturers to oversee the process that ensures air worthiness and other vital safety aspects of new aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chao said last month the panel would be co-chaired by retired Air Force General Darren McDew, the former head of the U.S. Transportation Command, and Lee Moak, a former president of the Air Line Pilots Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal prosecutors, the Transportation Department\u2019s inspector general and lawmakers are investigating the FAA\u2019s certification of the 737 MAX 8 aircraft. A joint review by 10 governmental air regulators is also set to start April 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Tom Brown)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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