Mitre Urges More Safety Focus In Derivative Evaluations

BOEING 737
Derivatives can be made safer by applying new, safety-critical regulations to their designs, Mitre found.
Credit: Joe Walker
The FAA’s process of greenlighting new aircraft variants that are step changes from older versions—instead of insisting on clean-sheet designs—should not be scrapped, a congressionally ordered independent study concludes. But the agency can make changes to better isolate safety-critical regulations...

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