The White House claimed Friday that the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are “taking the action” to ensure that Boeing airplanes are safe to fly on in the future but did not say if President Joe Biden believes they are safe for consumers right now.
The comments come as Boeing planes have experienced a number of recent in-flight malfunctions, including the mid-air plunge of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight earlier this week.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fielded a number of questions on the topic at Friday’s press briefing and referred specific inquiries back to the NTSB and FAA.
“We take this very seriously. The FAA takes this very, very seriously. But there’s investigations happening,” she told reporters. “We stand by FAA and the actions that it is
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