FAA gives Boeing 90 days to come up with a plan to address quality issues

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Producing a plan is easy, executing is hard. We’ll see how sincere they are.

I do not expect Boeing to get a plan approved within 365 days, much less 90 days.

I do look forward to whatever they produce being more of a parody than any Dilbert cartoon ever could be.

Or what? The article doesn't say.

The FAA has authority to ground the entire fleet.

It probably won't go that far, but it does have the necessary authority to enforce a pretty huge "or else".

A more likely penalty is that they refuse to certify any newly manufactured plane.

That's pretty much entirely up to the FAA. They can, for instance, revoke the type and manufacturing certificates and Boeing doesn't get to make and sell aircraft anymore.

What likely happens? They don't let them sell until the problems are addressed to the FAAs satisfaction.

I'm pretty sure if the FAA revoked the type certificates the airlines would take out a hit contract on all administrators involved. (joking) That would burn more money than the GDP of most countries.

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