As Boeing continues paperwork exercises for the FAA on its final two versions of the four-member 737 Max family, the programs still face significant barriers to certification as regulators sharpen their focus on several areas of documentation in keeping with the Aircraft Certification Safety Accountability Act of 2020. Speaking with a group of reporters recently during a pre-Paris Airshow gathering near Boeing’s 787 factories in Charleston, South Carolina, Boeing Commercial Airplanes senior v-p of development programs and customer support Mike Fleming said the 737 Max 7 “really probably explains the certification environment” since the twin crashes and subsequent grounding of the Max family derailed progress toward entry into service to an extent no one could have predicted when the company launched the family 12 years ago.
“First, we have the Aircraft Certification Safety Accountability Act, which Congress passed a couple of years ago, which led to new requirements on the Federal Aviation Administration,” he explained. “And then coming from them to us [there are] differences in the means of compliance that we have to show to the regulators to move these things forward.”
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