{"id":413782,"date":"2026-04-26T06:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-737-max-cabin-smoke-faa-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:28:23","slug":"us-watchdog-slams-faa-inaction-on-boeing-737-max-cabin-smoke-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=413782","title":{"rendered":"US Watchdog Slams FAA Inaction On Boeing 737 MAX Cabin Smoke Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An audit will be undertaken on 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&#8217;s<\/span><\/span> (FAA) handling of a concern relating to smoke and fumes entering the aircraft of the Boeing 737 MAX, following bird strike events on the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/striking-differences-cfm-leap-cfm56-engines\/\" >CFM International LEAP-1B engines<\/a>. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261425\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-department-of-transportation\/\"  >United States Department of Transportation<\/a><\/span> Office of Inspector General (DOT OIG) announced the move on Thursday, April 16, and and subsequently in the report materials published for this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unresolved safety concerns persist with the Load Reduction Device (LRD) on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, despite software updates and procedural changes.<\/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":[396,4421,420,11680,16569,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-department-of-transportation","category-faa","category-leap-engine","category-manufacturers","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413782","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=413782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413783,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413782\/revisions\/413783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}