[ no attempted Beatles humor this time ]
The Senate Commerce Committee hearing with three members of the Expert Panel included some very interesting and pertient information. It also includes some uninspired and simplistic (perhaps also essentially pointless) questioning by certain Members of the Committee - but the statements and answers to questions by the three witnesses struck this SLF/attorney as worth the time it took up. The truly expert witnesses are identified with their affiliations in a previous post. Here's the link from C-SPAN:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?534976...safety-culture
The Expert Panel report recommended certain actions be required of Boeing in (iirc) six months. FAA Administrator Whitaker chopped that timing down to 90 days, from the date of the final report (February 26). So despite some tedium and less-than-enlightening Senatorial questions, the content of this hearing provides context - imo important context - for the forthcoming 90-day deliverable(s) to FAA. Plus, Senate Commerce leaders have made it clear that the legislation enacted in the aftermath of the MAX accidents will not be the end of the legislative process - further reform or restructuring is under review (even if the incomplete FAA 5-year reauthorization clogs the lawmaking pipeline for now).
Particularly forceful were the comments by Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, who chairs the Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation. On the odd chance that there may be a few forum folks not enthralled by C-SPAN production values, Sen. Duckworth's turn with the witnesses is relatively early in the 2-hour program.