On investigation, Richard Bluental (D-C), ranking member of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee, is demanding from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to respond to what he says that he says that there is insufficient fine by the agency of the Boing Company for “hundreds” of quality-control violations.
Bluememental, In a Tuesday letter FAA Administration Brian Bedford, FAA’s proposed $ 3.1 million fine “slightly more than a goal error for boing”, given that the company generated a revenue of about $ 39 billion in two quarters, allegedly violated.
“For Boeing, such penal fines are easily absorbed as the cost of trading, not a meaningful preventive for dangerous behavior. As long as the punishment does not grow to the level that forces the company to invest in real safety reforms, the flying public will remain at risk,” BlueMemental will remain the risk.
The bloomel investigation was the chairman of the permanent subcommittee when Democrats controlled the Senate and investigated the Boeing security issues, which included the mid-hoda of a door plug on the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max in January 2024.
The FAA states that it implemented a “maximum statutory penalty” against Boeing, but BluMemental says “only underlines the insufficiency of the current law” and wants to know if there was any conscience in the calculation of the proposed punishment.
He asked the FAA to provide a list of each violation by Boeing that the agency punished and explained why some violations were not punished or some punishment were below the legal maximum.
He also wants to know if the FAA estimates to reduce the proposed punishment if Boeing requests to do so and any FAA investigation can be operated in Boeing security violations.
BlueMemental has asked the agency to provide all correspondence between FAA and Boeing related to an employee briefing on the subject and an employee on the subject.
