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...The demand came after Boeing chief executive David Calhoun and his senior safety team met FAA administrator Mike Whitaker on Tuesday....
...Federal Aviation Administration administrator Michael Whitaker will testify in a hearing that is likely to focus on oversight of Boeing....
...Mike Whitaker, administrator of the US Federal Aviation Administration, met Boeing chief executive David Calhoun and his senior safety team on Tuesday before making the demand....
...Michael Whitaker, currently chief operating officer at Hyundai’s electric air taxi company Supernal, was deputy administrator at the agency between 2013 and 2016....
...“We are working to make sure nothing like this happens again,” FAA administrator Michael Whitaker said....
...Whitaker, who returned to the FAA as its administrator last October, will need all that thoroughness to steer the agency through its current challenges....
...“It is time to re-examine the delegation of authority and assess any associated safety risks,” FAA administrator Mike Whitaker said....
...“The FAA is requiring immediate inspections of certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes before they can return to flight,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said....
...“It is time for a new captain to guide the FAA,” he said in a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg....
...David Boulter, the FAA’s acting administrator for aviation safety, said the proposals will “safely usher in this new era of aviation and provide the certainty the industry needs to develop”....
...The FAA has not had a permanent head since March and is led by acting administrator Billy Nolen....
...Acting FAA administrator Billy Nolen met with federal inspectors last Thursday in South Carolina, where Boeing makes 787s, to make sure they were satisfied with Boeing’s actions to improve manufacturing...
...“Failure to reach a solution by January 5 will force the US aviation sector to take steps to protect the safety of the travelling public” wrote US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg and FAA administrator...
...FAA administrator Steve Dickson said then that the agency had seen a “disturbing increase” in incidents where passengers disrupted flights and that these incidents stemmed from “passengers’ refusals to wear...
...Steve Dickson, the FAA administrator, said the agency was meeting Boeing and Pratt & Whitney as a result of the incident at the weekend....
...“The path that led us to this point was long and gruelling,” said Steve Dickson, FAA administrator....
...(FT) Wirecard creditors meet Wirecard’s creditors will meet with the administrator in Munich on Wednesday to survey the winding-down of the company....
...“More concerning, the administrator wants to directly address the perception that some of Boeing’s public statements have been designed to force FAA into taking quicker action.”...
...Mr Bastian said he had not seen the FAA administrator’s testimony but believed that “we will all learn from what happened with the Max”....
...Daniel Elwell, acting administrator of the FAA, told reporters that a day-long meeting of aviation regulators from 33 countries on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas, had been “exceedingly positive, constructive...
...Daniel Elwell, acting administrator of the FAA, reiterated the agency did not have a timetable but indicated separately that airlines that had taken the grounded aircraft out of their schedules until August...
...The acting FAA administrator said that his agency’s “oversight approach” would have to “evolve” as aircraft become more complex....
...A Boeing spokesperson said: “We appreciate acting administrator Elwell’s comments as well as those of other pilots, airline customers and global regulators that have expressed concerns....
...Daniel Elwell, the acting administrator of the FAA, went out of his way after the Texas meeting to stress that simulator training remained an open question....
...The FAA referred all queries to the department....
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