A recent spate of issues involving United Airlines has resulted in
greater scrutiny and oversight from federal regulators.
Those
issues include a piece of the
outer fuselage falling off one jet, an engine fire, a plane skidding off the
runway and a plane losing a tire during takeoff. All of that, in addition to
other problems, happened within one week earlier this month.
United’s vice president of corporate
safety, Sasha Johnson, said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will examine
“multiple areas of our operation.”
“Over the next several weeks, we will
begin to see more of an FAA presence in our operation as they begin to review
some of our work processes, manuals and facilities,” she said in a note to
employees. “We welcome their engagement and are very open to hear from
them about what they find and their perspective on…