{"id":373434,"date":"2026-02-21T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dot-audit-exposes-faa-poor-oversight-united-airlines-maintenance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:58:25","slug":"insufficient-dot-audit-exposes-faas-poor-oversight-of-united-airlines-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=373434","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInsufficient\u201d: DOT Audit Exposes FAA\u2019s Poor Oversight Of United Airlines\u2019 Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oversight of the maintenance practices at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> by the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257847\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Federal Aviation Administration<\/span><\/span> has been suggested as being hindered by ineffective workforce training, inadequate staffing, and &#8216;hurdles&#8217; towards the access of air carrier data. This has been suggested by the federal watchdog after an audit of FAA supervision published in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/federal-watchdog-faults-faa-oversight-united-airlines-maintenance-practices-2026-02-20\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >recent report by Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insufficient staffing to oversee maintenance at one of America&#8217;s largest airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,420,421,13746,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-faa","category-ntsb","category-safetyaudit","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373435,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373434\/revisions\/373435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}