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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDaniel Ellwell is acting head of the FAA . He was an aerospace industry lobbyist
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Daniel Ellwell is the Acting head of the FAA. His bio here: https://www.faa.gov/about/key_officials/elwell/
Elwell was Vice President of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) from 2008-2013. In this role, Elwell represented civil aerospace manufacturers and led policy development and advocacy
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The top FAA job has been vacant for 14 months, airline enforcement fines have dropped 88% in two years and lengthy tarmac delays have doubled. Meantime, the U.S. is increasingly isolated in not acting on the Boeing 737 Max 8. https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-737-max-the-latest-example-of-a-passive-dot-11552409944 via @WSJ
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NEW: @Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg spoke by phone with TRUMP this a.m., urging him not to ground 737 Max 8s after Sundays crash.
* Muilenburg has tried to cultivate Trump. He visited Mar-a-Lago after AF1 dust-up, & Boeing donated $1M to Trump inaugural.
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Daniel Ellwell is acting head of the FAA . He was an aerospace industry lobbyist (Original Post)
octoberlib
Mar 2019
OP
Ok, Trumpy. Let's see you fly on a 737 Max 8 and show us all how safe it is.
smirkymonkey
Mar 2019
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spanone
(135,874 posts)1. "airline enforcement fines have dropped 88%"
de-regulation ladies and gentlemen....the cornerstone of trumps maladministration
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)2. Yep. That they're willing to even make airplanes less safe is disgusting.
I mean , people in his administration fly commercial, too.
spanone
(135,874 posts)7. I know, it's mind boggling...
families
friends
strangers
humans
I don't get it
malaise
(269,157 posts)3. Rachel is covering this right now
Watch - he is the acting administrator and has been since Obama's head resigned in 2018 January
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)4. I'm watching it! Glad she's covering it.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)5. He needs to resign. Now.
Almost criminally incompetent.
dalton99a
(81,577 posts)6. Typical Trump appointee
Duppers
(28,127 posts)8. Perfect 'toon. nt
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)9. God forbid a plane falls out of the sky here,
after all the information that has been released so far. Victim families could rip up these men alive and then own Boeing.
What a gamble.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)10. Ok, Trumpy. Let's see you fly on a 737 Max 8 and show us all how safe it is.
Then we'll trust your judgement.