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Showing Original Post only (View all)Did you know that by executive order in 2017 The orange maggot loosened regulations on aircraft manufacturing [View all]
And allowed them to self regulate on a range of manufacturing and safety issues?
I saw this meme today and researched it myself and sure enough I found a Forbes article backing up this claim. This article is from 2019.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2019/03/18/did-trump-executive-orders-further-weaken-faa-oversight/?sh=347eec843ca7
The Ethiopian Airlines crash has raised questions over the degree of oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Boeings development of the flight control system for the 737 MAX.
While these questions are valid, its important to note that the FAA has been mandated to give more control over to aviation organizations, including manufacturers, over the years. Two Executive Orders signed by President Donald Trump, that require the FAA to cut regulations further, may have tipped the balance by diminishing FAA authority and focusing the agency on working against its principal aim.
The weakness of this approach becomes apparent, as most systemic failures do, in unforeseen circumstances, such as the current scrutiny into the certification of a flight-control system on the Boeing 737 MAX that is suspected to have played a role in two deadly crashes. It's too soon to say to what degree closer oversight may have addressed any failure modes in the 737 MAX MCAS, but the FAA was acting within its policies and procedures by accepting Boeing's proof of the soundness of the system.
Bottom line, the FAA has been ordered to back off industry and is now being investigated for backing off by the same people who issued the orders. The requirement that the FAA delegate more of its oversight responsibility to industry was imposed on the FAA years ago, but it has more recently intensified with direct orders to undo the regulatory framework developed over many decades, following learnings from deadly accidents.
He signed this Executive Order 13771 In 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13771
President Biden rescinded this order on January 21,2021 but think of those planes manaufactured during 2017-2020!
Another thing we can blame the orange maggot on!