Originally Posted by
sky9
Surely you cannot have an aircraft that is non compliant with regulatory requirements getting approval. That would leave the regulators in the dock as well as Boeing at every incident involving the MAX.
The job of Boeing is to produce a compliant aircraft; when it does so the regulators could and should approve it. Until that time the place for the Max is on the ground without passengers.
The converse of this is that if regulatory compliance, and approval/disapproval of regulatory filings, is going to be conducted via leaked e-mail and innuendo then the entire cross-national regulatory regime will grind to a halt. Suppliers must have some assurance that when they file a document that is compliant with regulations and procedures that that document will be processed and approved or disapproved based on consistent criteria.