Originally Posted by
yoko1
Other agencies are more than willing to use the FAA or EASA as a de facto approval authority since they lack the resources to conduct their own approval process.
The wording of the above sentence tends to associate the FAA with the EASA.
Acting administrator Elwell admitted that it's the FAA that lack the resources to conduct their own approval, hence the infamous ODA system that allowed Boeing to self certify it's own products.
This time the EASA or Canada CAA won't necessarily be so easily convinced.
BTW, you may now give Ethiopian a break : US-trained pilots just failed to control the MAX sim, so maybe there's also something wrong with the airplane, fixed or not ?
Or maybe NTPS is also to blame with substandard training ?