Boeing is accused of not being fully forthcoming about changes it made to the 737 Max. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren March 22, 2019 Boeing 737 Max: The FAA wanted a safe plane – but didn’t want to hurt America’s biggest exporter either Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Simon F. Haeder, West Virginia University Some are calling the FAA’s relationship with Boeing an open-and-shut case of ‘regulatory capture.’ The reality is more complicated.