WASHINGTON — Steve Dickson, who led the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration through a tumultuous period following fatal crashes of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max and the COVID-19 pandemic, is stepping down from the agency at the end of March.
Dickson informed FAA’s employees in an email Wednesday of his plan to depart less than three years into his five-year term. He called the decision “very difficult” but said he was motivated by the long periods he’d been forced to spend away from his family in Georgia as a result of the job and the pandemic.
“Although my heart is heavy, I am tremendously proud of everything we have accomplished together over the past several years,” Dickson said in the email, reviewed by Bloomberg News. “The agency is in a better place than it was two years ago, and we are positioned for great success.”
