Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
Someone failed to comprehend the concept of the Joint Authorities Technical Review (JTAR, for millennials), as previously given in detail.
So no, not a good post in the least. A wrong post. Again.
“The formation of the JATR is unprecedented and is the wave of the future in aviation safety,” former National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart, who chairs the new review, said in a statement. “The level of commitment from the experts show that aviation safety is a global issue that requires continued international collaboration.”
Oh please. When there was a second smoking hole in the ground by a MAX 8, and other countries had already grounded the MAX, the Sec of Transportation herself and her staff flew the MAX 8 from AUS to Washington DC to show their support of Boeing and the MAX. It’s overdrive protection mode well known by the FAA, just like when ValuJet crashed and the Sec of Transportation stood on the swamp crash site and claimed that he had flown Valujet, Valujet is a safe airline, as is the entire transportation system.
JATR:
Created by the FAA to welcome the foreign parties that are regulatory authorities. Hart chairs this review group and he himself calls it unprecedented. Read it however you like. It’s unprecedented because for the first time, the FAA is forced to the back seat. The bottom line is the rest of the world grounded this airplane first. China. Indonesia, Ethiopia, India, Europe. The FAA was left as the lone man standing before caving in and grounding it, but saving face by saying they grounded it based on data.
When it comes time to unground it, since the FAA wasn’t the first and instead was last, they are in no position to lift the ban until those foreign regulatory authorities are satisfied. It will have to be a unified lifting of the ban.