The Transportation Department’s Inspector General is conducting a separate
administrative audit into the certification of the MAX. At a Senate subcommittee hearing in March, Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III said such audits generally take about seven months, but could take longer given the complexity of the issue.
7 months ? we are then in 2020.
any person putting their name to paper with all these open investigations is taking a career deciding decision
Agree. Do not know in the FAA but knowing a bit how EASA works I can see nobody signing certification papers on the Max until all the currents reports from the various groups looking at it have published their conclusions. That probably includes this one.