The US Federal Aviation Administration did not independently evaluate the safety of a Boeing 737 MAX system implicated in two deadly crashes, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The US regulator, as part of an internal review, has preliminarily concluded that FAA officials largely deferred to Boeing’s assessments of the accident-ridden 737 MAX during the certification process, the person said. Boeing’s top-selling 737 MAX narrow-body planes have been grounded globally since mid-March following two plane crashes that killed 346 people.
