Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberg, 68, is slamming the FAA for letting Boeing conduct their own aircraft certification inspections
Hero pilot Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberg is slamming the Federal Aviation Administration for allowing Boeing to oversee its own aircraft certification inspections, which could have led to the two fatal 737 Max 8 plane crashes.
Sullenberg rose to international fame in 2009 for his miracle emergency landing in the Hudson River when his plane's engines disabled, saving 155 people on board.
The now retired pilot turned safety advocate says that the FAA 'has created an inherent conflicts of interest' by allowing Boeing to conduct certification inspections on their own planes.
Boeing has come under fire after two of their 737 Max 8 planes horrifically crashed in Indonesia in October then again Ethiopia in February, each time killing all on board, and all within a five month period.
'Boeing and the FAA have been found wanting in this ugly saga that began years ago but has come home to roost with two terrible fatal crashes, with no survivors,' Sullenberg wrote in an op-ed for Market Watch.
He says the FAA lacks sufficient funds to ensure proper oversight of the global aviation industry. On top of funds, the agency is severely understaffed.
He says the FAA is so understaffed and low-funded that they allow aircraft manufacturers to do their own plane certifications, which creates a conflict of interest. The Boeing 737 Max 8 plane operated by Ethiopian Airlines that crashed in February pictured above
Boeing has come under fire after two of their 737 Max 8 planes horrifically crashed in Indonesia in October then again Ethiopia in February, each time killing all on board, within a five month period
Rescue workers of crashed Lion Air flight JT610 carry a body bag off a boat at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 30, 2018
Because of small amount of staff, the FAA allows aircraft manufacturers to oversee their own aircraft certification, which raises question to the reliability of such inspections.
'There simply are not nearly enough FAA employees to do this important work in-house,' he said in his think piece.
He believes that the 737 Max 8 aircraft was made in haste due to global competition, which led to poor engineering and eventually the fatal crashes.
'Boeing, in developing the 737 Max 8, obviously felt intense competitive pressure to get the new aircraft to market as quickly as possible. When flight testing revealed an issue with meeting the certification standards, the company developed a fix, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), but did not tell airline pilots about it,' he said.
'In mitigating one risk, Boeing seems to have created another, greater risk,' he added.
Sully says the issue with the aircraft should have been properly investigated following the October Lion Air 610 crash in Indonesia, but Boeing supposedly pushed back in talks with the FAA about the extent of changes that would be required.
Then after the Ethiopian 302 crash in February, the Boeing CEO reached out to President Trump in an effort to keep the 737 Max 8 from being grounded, Sullenberg says.
Captain Sully, a famed retired pilot turned safety advocate, weighed in on the plane crash controversy this week saying that FAA and Boeing are to blame for the crashes
Sullenberger was dubbed a national hero for safely ditching a US Airways plane (pictured) into the Hudson river in 2009
'The new fix still has not been fielded, nearly five months after Lion Air. It almost certainly could have been done sooner, and should have been,' he added.
He said that Boeing will likely face several billion of dollars in additional costs as a result of the crashes.
'It is always better and cheaper to do it right instead of doing it wrong and trying to repair the damage after the fact, and when lives are lost, there is no way to repair the damage,' Sully said.
'And in this ultra-cost-competitive global aviation industry, when it comes to costs, nothing is more costly than an accident. Nothing,' he added.
This isn't the first time Sully's attacked Boeing over the two crashes.
Just last week he slammed the 'absurdly low' number of training hours Ethiopian Airline pilot had to clock before taking to the air.
Sully took to Facebook to note that Ethiopian Airlines pilots had a requirement of 200 hours of training hours - 'an absurdly low amount for someone in the cockpit of a jet airlines'.
'While we don’t know what role, if any, pilot experience played in this most recent tragedy, it should always remain a top priority at every airline. Everyone who flies depends upon it,' he added.
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Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberg, 68, is slamming the FAA for letting Boeing conduct their own aircraft certification inspections
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