Late Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a strong rebuke to Boeing and said it will sanction the company.
The move follows comments by a senior executive who spoke to a media gathering on Tuesday and disclosed new information related to the cause of the Alaska Airlines fuselage blowout in January.
Boeing is a party to the NTSB investigation. However, by long-established rules and signed agreements, only the lead investigating agency — in this case, the NTSB — is authorized to reveal details of an investigation and to provide analysis of an incident’s cause.
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In a statement, the NTSB said Boeing “blatantly violated the NTSB investigative regulations and Boeing’s signed party agreement with the NTSB by providing nonpublic investigative information to the media and speculating about possible causes of the Jan. 5 door plug blowout.”
The NTSB said “few entities know the rules better” than Boeing. Accordingly, it will impose “a series of restrictions and sanctions” on the jet maker.
Basically, Boeing will now be treated as a witness and is no longer allowed to participate in the investigation itself. Because their executives figure that the rules don't apply to them, which is pretty much the way most of the C-suites in this country operate.
It took a long time for the chickens to come home to roost for Boeing, but they seem to be settling in.
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