Questions over why FAA lagged on engine warning before Southwest fatality
May 20, 2018 at 16:52 PM EDT
Investigators have yet to issue their final report on a Southwest Airlines Co. flight last month that ended in an emergency landing and a passenger’s death. But one thing is clear: Despite a warning about a suspect engine part nearly two years earlier, investigators didn’t mandate enhanced inspections for an unusually long time and acted only after the high-profile fatality.