The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) oversight and certification practices will be the subject of a review by a government watchdog agency, which says it is especially interested in the process used by the FAA to establish pilot training requirements for the Boeing 737 MAX.
The Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said Monday that the review, which will begin later this month at the request of members of the U.S. House of Representatives, was prompted by concerns associated with the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes.
The crashes involved Lion Air Flight 610 on Oct. 29, 2018, after departure from Jakarta, Indonesia, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019, after departure from Addis Ababa, Eth…
