Comment / Who is the real loser in the Boeing/FAA saga?

© Dmitriy Feldman

Boeing’s latest problems are certainly having an impact on US airlines: but the whole ’sorry 737 saga’ is in fact having an even bigger effect on the US’s ability to be at the forefront of new technologies and aviation innovation. 

But let’s start at the beginning – well, this month, when a Japan Airlines aircraft burst into flames after hitting another plane. 

Evacuating nearly 400 people from an aircraft on fire, in less than 20 minutes, has shown how aviation safety standards ...