Exhibit 1204 · Congressional committee report
Final Committee Report: The Design, Development & Certification of the Boeing 737 MAX
Boeing’s historic marketing success of the 737 MAX created enormous production pressure that negatively impacted its workforce and the quality and safety of the MAX program.
Majority-staff report. Lists five themes: production pressures, faulty design and performance assumptions, culture of concealment, conflicted representation, and Boeing's influence over the FAA's oversight structure. Chapter 8 documents schedule pressure, a "Countdown Clock" in a Boeing conference room and cost-driven exclusion of safety technology.
- Source
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, majority staff (Chair DeFazio, Aviation Subcommittee Chair Larsen)
- Date
- September 2020
- Quoted from
- Chapter 8, Investigative Findings, p. 164 (printed report page)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://democrats-transportation.house.gov/imo/media/doc/final_boeing_737_max_report.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Majority staff report; the committee Republicans disputed its framing (reported in press, not read). Other quotes read: Executive Summary p. 12, "There was tremendous financial pressure on Boeing and the 737 MAX program to compete with Airbus’ new A320neo aircraft."; p. 13, "Culture of Concealment. In several critical instances, Boeing withheld crucial information from the FAA, its customers, and 737 MAX pilots." The original transportation.house.gov URL returned 404 to a script; the committee Democrats' host served the PDF. Further quotation: “The MAX crashes were not the result of a singular failure, technical mistake, or mismanaged event.” (Executive Summary, PDF p. 13 of the committee PDF (printed page not confirmed)).