Not providing information to the FAA Is Business As Usual.
Training Day; How to answer questions from FAA Auditors.
Do not offer any information other than the answer to the question.
Keep your answer to yes, no or I don’t know when appropriate.
Do not elaborate keep your answers short, so as not to generate
any other questions from the auditor.
When in doubt defer to a higher authority.
Boeing has documentation on how to answer FAA auditors questions.
This is part of Boeings training materials.
We are trained not to give information to the FAA, it’s in our DNA.
Boeing and the DOJ kept the text messages from the public
Until after the Embraer deal closed as Boeing stock was tendered
for the acquisition with a market value of $4.5 billion.
Boeing is under investigation by the SEC for not disclosing
material facts to share holders as to the known risk of the Max
and it’s impact on share value.
Boeing Earnings Announcement is Oct. 23
Boeing had to make public the 2016 text messages before Oct. 23
Boeing also had to go public before Muilenburg testifies before congress.
The DOJ and the FAA already had knowledge of these text messages
And so did we, we as in all of us who Pay Attention.
It’s all about money, damage control and plausible deniability for the FAA.
Boeing has been Boeing in name only for decade’s newbie’s
MPK = More Practical Knowledge