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Paul Hudson is an aviation expert and attorney based in Washington DC and the founder of Flyers Rights, an advocacy organization for airline passengers.
After two crashes and hundreds of passengers dead in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The aircraft was grounded by FAA and aviation regulators around the globe.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday issued a draft report on revised training procedures for the Boeing 737 MAX, a key milestone to the plane’s eventual ungrounding.
The FAA said the draft Flight Standardization Board report would be open for public comment through Nov. 2 before the procedures are finalized. The proposal adds new training requirements to deal with a key safety system called MCAS tied to two fatal crashes that killed 346 people and led to the plane’s grounding in March 2019.
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Under the terms of the three-year deferred prosecution agreement, Boeing will pay a total criminal monetary amount of over $2.5 billion, composed of a penalty of $243.6 million and a $1.77 billion commitment to provide Boeing’s airline customers for financial losses resulting from the grounding of the 737 Max.
In addition, a $500 million crash-victim beneficiaries fund will be established to compensate the heirs, relatives, and legal beneficiaries of the 346 passengers who died in the two crashes. This is a substantial settlement of a very serious matter, and I firmly believe that entering into this resolution is the right thing for us to do a step that appropriately acknowledges how we fell short of our values and expectations, Boeing President and CEO David Calhoun said in a memo to employees. While we deeply regret the conduct described in the agreement, I am confident that it isn’t reflective of our employees as a whole or the culture or character of our