>1) Production Pressures. There was tremendous financial pressure on Boeing and subsequently the 737 MAX program to compete with Airbus’ A320neo aircraft.>2) Faulty Assumptions. Boeing made fundamentally faulty assumptions about critical technologies on the 737 MAX, most notably with MCAS.>3) Culture of Concealment. In several critical instances, Boeing withheld crucial information from the FAA, its customers, and 737 MAX pilots.>4) Conflicted Representation. The Committee has found that the FAA’s current oversight structure with respect to Boeing creates inherent conflicts of interest that have jeopardized the safety of the flying public. >5) Boeing’s Influence Over the FAA’s Oversight. Multiple career FAA officials have documented examples to the Committee where FAA management overruled the determination of the FAA’s own technical experts at the behest of Boeing.>Boeing’s design and development of the 737 MAX was marred by technical design failures, lack of transparency with both regulators and customers, and efforts to obfuscate information about the operation of the aircraft.>Boeing’s responses to safety issues raised in the 737 MAX program have consistently been too late.>The Committee’s investigation has also found that the FAA’s certification review of Boeing’s 737 MAX was grossly insufficient and that the FAA failed in its duty to identify key safety problems and to ensure that they were adequately addressed during the certification process.>Developing a transport category commercial aircraft that is compliant with FAA regulations but fundamentally flawed and unsafe highlights an aviation oversight system in desperate need of repair.https://transportation.house.gov/news/press-releases/nearly-one-year-after-launching-its-boeing-737-max-investigation-house-transportation-committee-issues-preliminary-investigative-findings-TL;DR: Boeing and the FAA done fucked up
