Boeing fails large portion of FAA audit as investigators probe New Zealand 787 incident [Video]

As an investigation gets underway to find out what went wrong on the LATAM Airlines flight from Sydney, Australia, to Auckland, New Zealand, that left 50 passengers injured on Monday, new details about another Boeing audit conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration reveal that the company failed large portions of that evaluation.

The audit specifically looked at the production of Boeing’s 737 Max, following Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California, in January, which was forced to make an emergency landing after a door plug suddenly blew out mid-air on a 737 Max 9 jet. Boeing failed 33 of the audit’s 89 sections, CBS News confirmed, with regulators finding 97 examples of the company’s alleged non-compliance with many of its own best practices.

The Alaska Airlines incident called into question the safety of the 737 Max 9 jet and Boeing’s production standards more broadly, especially since preliminary results of an investigation by the National Transportation and Safety Board …