Originally Posted by
MPN11
As someone has recently posted on another Forum ..
Something is wrong, deep down in the system either at Boeing or the FAA.
You can actually find this increasingly with government Regulatory Authorities, in various countries, and with other regulators/augitors, eg for the finance industry.
Time was when the regulators were quite independent, and looked at things with true external oversight. They would need the knowledgeable personnel to work through everything. Then it slowly occurred to them that they might get the industry they were regulating to do certain of their jobs for them, particularly if this lessened their own costs. Instead of checking everything out from the outside, get the industry to bear the cost and write up a description of what they had done, which could then just be signed off. Increasing the industry did all the work, and the Regulator just said "OK then". Of course, they did not then need as many of their own knowledgeable technical staff now, it becomes just admin staff checking that a box ticking exercise has been completed. If they don't know what boxes to ask to be ticked in the first place, well, just ask the industry to devise the list for you ...