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Boeing (BA) submitted a government-mandated report to the Federal Aviation Administration intended to help prevent another unsafe plane from leaving its factory floors.
The FAA in February gave Boeing 90 days to submit the report, asking it to propose overhauls of its aircraft manufacturing and quality control processes.
That order was in response to a midair blowout of a fuselage section that detached from an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 jet in January.
FAA administrator Michael Whitaker held a press briefing Thursday following receipt of Boeing's plan.
"Bottom line, we will continue to make sure every airplane that comes off the line is safe and reliable," he said. "Regardless of how many planes Boeing builds."
Boeing is working to assure regulators, lawmakers, investors, and the public that its planes are airworthy while also dealing with lawsuits, investigations, and a production slowdown that is contributing to a cash burn at the aviation giant.
The FAA report, which Boeing submitted as a PowerPoint presentation, requires the company and its suppliers to submit to enhanced FAA oversight, including more inspections and monitoring.
Boeing must also adopt a new safety management system, a committee to increase employee training, boost employee oversight, and incorporate more input into manufacturing and quality control from users of its aircraft, including pilots.
"I think the flying public should feel that we're increasing our oversight to an appropriate level with Boeing," Whitaker said.
He added that more inspectors had been placed on the floor of Boeing's 737 Max manufacturing facility in Renton, Wash., giving regulators more insight into safety and quality management.
There were no fatalities resulting from the January Alaska Airlines flight, though passengers and crew on board reported physical and emotional injuries.
The mid-air emergency prompted the FAA to put a stop to the expansion of 737 Max production. Those limits contributed to a 40% production rate drop in Max planes in the first quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Whitaker said the FAA had not yet set specific metrics for increasing production and Boeing had not requested an increase to the current caps.
Boeing has so far implemented part of the changes in its report to the FAA.
In an email to Yahoo Finance, a representative for the plane maker said it had held factory-wide "stand down" meetings at its manufacturing facilities across the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Boeing has also created more ways for workers to share and anonymously report safety concerns, added more training hours for its skilled laborers, hired thousands of additional employees, and purchased new tools and equipment.