Hello and welcome to episode 257 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with...

Jason Rebinowitz, how's it going Ian?

It's going well, Jason. How are you, sir?

I'm well. It sounds like you've had a busy week though. I've been reading a lot this week. I've been reading a lot this week and I've been I've been doing so much reading so that our listeners don't necessarily have to, which that's part of our job, oftentimes is

distilling a large document, like the Section 103 Organization designation authorizations for transport airplanes expert panel review report

rolls right off the tongue rolls right off the tongue doesn't it?

I love how they name these things. It doesn't but with a name like that the report better be damning and

complete and comprehensive and you know what it was all of those things.

It is all of those things. It is all of those things.

Yes, so this report, well, it's exactly what it is.

It's the Section 103, or, Annie, I'm not reading the whole thing.

The moral of the story is that this is a report that was mandated by the

2020 law passed by Congress that an expert panel would be formed under the 2020 Aircraft Certification Safety and

Accountability Act. That act said that this expert panel that would be constituted based on their expertise

in aviation safety and processes and manufacturing and all of these other things, they would review the organization designation authorization that the FAA gives to Boeing, which allows Boeing to have a subset of employees who work for Boeing,

but act on behalf of the FAA to certify the aircraft.

And one of the initial findings after the crashes of the 2737 Max aircraft was that per se. the The Act was passed in 2020. The panel takes a while to get constituted and they've finally

released their report. The report itself is about 50 pages long and identified 27 findings and 53 associated recommendations.

We're not going to go through all of them, but we are going to hit the highlights.

The first among them, the disconnect between Boeing's senior management and other members of the

organization of Safety Culture.

Interviewees, including ODA unit members, so the people who are technically Boeing employees

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