(MENAFN- Baystreet.ca) A committee is set to deliver its findings to Boeing's (NYSE:BA) board this week on how the company can design and build safer airplanes after the fatal crashes of two 737 Max jets. The story broke Sunday in The New York Times, which cites people familiar with the matter.
The recommendations include changing corporate reporting structures, creating a new safety group, and changing the cockpits of future planes to accommodate new pilots with less training, three people briefed on the matter told the Times.
Engineers currently report mostly to Boeing's business leaders. The committee will recommend that they report first and foremost to the company's chief engineer in the future. There's concern that engineers who identify safety issues might face pushback from business leaders who don't want production to slow down.
The committee will also call for the creation of a new safety group after an investigation into the process by which Boeing employees do certification work for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The committee found that communication was inadequate within the engineering department and between Boeing's commercial aviation offices in the Seattle area and its corporate headquarters in Chicago during the certification work.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg set up the committee in April to review company processes for the design and development of airplanes. The committee did not investigate the two fatal 737 Max crashes, but its findings are Boeing's first attempt to reform the company's internal structures since then.
Shares in BA sagged $1.98 to $377.78 early Monday morning.
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