In a June 2010 article on regulatory capture , the FAA was cited as an example of " old-style " regulatory capture , " in which the airline industry openly dictates to its regulators its governing rules , arranging for not only beneficial regulation but placing key people to head these regulators . " That the FAA was a victim of regulatory capture was one focus of a United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation and Space meeting held in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash that claimed 157 lives . The Boeing 737 MAX platform that crashed had been subjected to only an " amended " airworthiness type certificate . The NTSB was tasked with the investigation of the FAA 's certification process
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
Regulatory capture