Proponents say distributing more oversight work to Boeing was necessary to increase efficiency at the FAA. Investigators with Scovel’s office are probing the certification of the 737 Max, and the Justice Department’s criminal division is also looking into the aircraft. Then there would be an ODA “unit,” which was made up of Boeing employees authorized to do some of the FAA’s certification work. One was Boeing, the applicant; the other was Boeing, the FAA’s agent. Boeing said the planes followed “the identical FAA requirements and processes” that governed previous planes.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2019 13:31 UTC