Democratic senator: FAA’s proposed Boeing fine is inadequate

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation, is demanding answers from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) about what he says is the agency’s inadequate fine of The Boeing Company for “hundreds” of quality-control violations. Blumenthal, in a Tuesday letter to FAA Administration Bryan Bedford, called the FAA’s proposed...