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From FAA.gov:

> We're responsible for the safety of civil aviation.

https://www.faa.gov/about/mission/activities

Maybe the people responsible are the people who say they’re responsible?

The FAA gets authorized by Congress. Congress is actually the one with the constitutional power to legislate, so can override executive agencies like the grandparent describes.

So if the FAA works with Boeing to fix a safety issue and Congress overrides FAA on the implementation we should blame the FAA.

Why?

Because the FAA is "responsible for the safety of civil aviation." They don't get to say that, and accept tax monies for that, and then throw up their hands when someone else tries to block them from doing their job. The director (or whoever heads the agency) should have resigned, alongwith the entire rest of the management. Instead of being content with letting someone else take the blame when the next accident claims 100s of lives.

Imagine if you were tasked with making sure that your app's customer's data were safe. Your boss goes against your recommendation and does something you know will put sensitive data in the hands of hackers. What would you do?

Obviously the best thing that the FAA could do is remove all upper management from being able to do their jobs...

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