Originally Posted by
Davvidd
I do agree that Boeing is getting a lot more flak that they should as the biggest flak should be aimed at the FAA who is getting away scot-free. and all the blame being diverted to Boeing.
None of the reporters are asking ICAO as to why FAA has not been Audited by ICAO? Why are only small states audited by ICAO though this time the FAA is in much more trouble that anyone else has even been before?
Boeing successfully lobbied for less direct oversight by their regulator, in favour of delegated authority whereby Boeing employees would assume the role of the regulator. As anybody could have told you, that didn’t work as intended and Boeing completely and utterly failed to live up to the responsibility they had lobbied to get. The FAA, through an act of congress, has pulled in the reins and - to the surprise of nobody - has found what everybody knew to be true. It’s fully in Boeing’s hands to demonstrate they are compliant with the regulations and production certificates. That they can’t do that when someone is actually checking them isn’t the fault of their regulator, but it does place a large and serious question mark on everything Boeing has self-certified.
The last ICAO USOAP audit of the United States was in 2007. For comparison, the last audit of the United Kingdom was in 2009 and Japan in 2010. It’s far from true that only “small states are audited by ICAO”; Australia, Brazil and Canada was audited in 2023, Italy in 2022 and Germany in 2021.