Boeing Needs More Focus on Safety and Quality, FAA Chief Says

Boeing Co. needs to shift its focus from the business of making planes toward safety in the wake of recent findings on lapses surrounding the January failure of a fuselage panel, the top US aviation regulator said.

Federal Aviation Administration chief Michael Whitaker told NBC Nightly News that his impressions from a recent visit to the manufacturer’s facilities was that “there are issues around the safety culture at Boeing,” according to interview excerpts released by the network.