FAA’s Boeing Crackdown Offers Preview Of Broader Changes | Aviation Week Network

"With manufacturing, there has been an oversight approach that has focused heavily on audits, checking the paperwork to make sure it's correct and making sure that systems are in place," FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker told the House aviation subcommittee during a Feb. 6 hearing. "We are migrating to a system that is what I would call 'audit plus.' We're going to have more of a surveillance component, much like you would find on the flight line or in maintenance [hangars], where inspectors are actually on the ground, talking to people, looking at the work that's being done. So we're proposing at this point to expand the oversight approach to include both audit and inspection, which is why we're moving inspectors into facilities."

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