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That union test pilot group had shrunk to about six people from 24 in 2016 as some left the union to become company technical pilots, retired or went back to flying passengers, American said. For the past five years, American has been transitioning our test flying to these skilled pilots and fleet experts to better manage the unpredictable nature of test flights, which are dictated by the completion of maintenance and do not follow a set schedule, American Airlines spokeswoman Sarah Jantz said.
But the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American s roughly 15,000 pilots, opposes the measure. The foundation of AA s strong safety culture has been a commitment to ensuring that independent, protected, and unintimidated pilots are conducting these critical safety check flights versus management pilots who may have a conflict of interest, Eric Ferguson, an American Airlines captain and APA s president, said in a Feb. 19 message to members. Any move to crack that foundation
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Boeing’s settlement with DOJ raises more questions than answers. While I understand that a criminal case against Boeing requires DOJ to identify
one or more
individuals who have committed a crime that can be fairly attributed to the Boeing corporation. The doctrine of
respondeat superior is the mechanism by which this legal attribution occurs.
Boeing has been praised for its remediation efforts and its end result. It clearly could have been a lot worse. In my view, it should have been a more severe enforcement action against Boeing. When misconduct results in a loss of life, the prosecution and eventual result should reflect the seriousness of the matter.
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One of the top corporate scandals over the past few years entered its next phase with the settlement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) with The Boeing Company (Boeing) around its fraud in the certification of its 737 MAX aircraft. The resolution was via a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA). Under the DPA, Boeing agreed to pay a total amount of $2.5 billion. According to a DOJ Press Release, this total amount consisted of “a criminal monetary penalty of $243.6 million, compensation payments to Boeing’s 737 MAX airline customers of $1.77 billion, and the establishment of a $500 million crash-victim beneficiaries fund to compensate the heirs, relatives, and legal beneficiaries of the 346 passengers who died in the Boeing 737 MAX crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.” This enforcement involved a fraud by Boeing on the US government. There are multiple lessons for the anti-bribery compliance