Thank you, Mr. Chair.
On the congressional House committee on transport, I'm sure you're both aware of its preliminary report and its more recent final report.
In the preliminary report, the congressional House committee on transport found some really concerning things in terms of the certification culture in the United States. It described how the financial pressure on Boeing to compete with Airbus led to decisions and assumptions that “jeopardized the safety of the flying public”, and it said that a culture of concealment saw Boeing withhold crucial information from the FAA, including hiding “the very existence of MCAS from 737 MAX pilots”.
On the culture it describes, you folks are in charge of validating the process in the United States. Before this preliminary report came out, were you at all aware of this culture of concealment in the American certification process?