US names experts to Boeing certification review panel
US transportation secretary Elaine Chao said Monday she named 4 experts to a blue-ribbon committee to review the FAA's aircraft certification process after 2 deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes. Chao said she was naming NASA's former aviation safety program director Amy Pritchett and Gretchen Haskins, CE of HeliOffshore Ltd, an international expert in aviation safety and a former US Air Force officer. She also named Kenneth Hylander, chief safety officer at Amtrak and a former senior safety executive at Delta and Northwest airlines, and J. David Grizzle, chairman of the board of Republic Airways and a former FAA chief counsel. The committee is "specifically tasked to review the 737 MAX 800 certification process from 2012 to 2017, and recommend improvements to the certification process." <br/>
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US names experts to Boeing certification review panel
US transportation secretary Elaine Chao said Monday she named 4 experts to a blue-ribbon committee to review the FAA's aircraft certification process after 2 deadly Boeing 737 MAX crashes. Chao said she was naming NASA's former aviation safety program director Amy Pritchett and Gretchen Haskins, CE of HeliOffshore Ltd, an international expert in aviation safety and a former US Air Force officer. She also named Kenneth Hylander, chief safety officer at Amtrak and a former senior safety executive at Delta and Northwest airlines, and J. David Grizzle, chairman of the board of Republic Airways and a former FAA chief counsel. The committee is "specifically tasked to review the 737 MAX 800 certification process from 2012 to 2017, and recommend improvements to the certification process." <br/>
