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Boeing Exec "Leaves" As Company Prepares To Report More Billions in Post-Crash Losses

Old_JoeOld_Joe
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NPR and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that a senior Boeing executive has been "replaced".

Following is the unedited text of the NPR news release:
The fallout continues at Boeing over two 737 Max plane crashes that killed 346 people, with the company replacing Kevin McAllister as the head of the commercial airplanes unit.

The news comes on the eve of Boeing releasing third-quarter financial results. The company is expected to report billions of dollars in losses, with the 737 Max — its top-selling commercial jet — grounded by aviation regulators around the world.

The company revealed last week that it had failed to turn over key documents to the FAA and congressional investigative committees. Those documents include instant messages between company pilots describing what one called "egregious" problems with the 737 Max and its new flight control system in a simulator, two years before the first of those two fatal crashes. Boeing is replacing McAllister with company insider Stan Deal, who has been with the aerospace giant since 1986.

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  • MarkMark
    Oops.
  • LewisBraham
    edited October 2019
    It's really incredible how executives never seem to learn and try to cover up mistakes and problems in products instead of just owning up to them and moving on. The only company that seemed to get it right was Johnson & Johnson with the Tylenol poisoning in 1982. They immediately owned the problem and worked to fix it with tamper-proof bottles. Today Tylenol remains a leading brand as a result.
  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    @LewisBraham- Yes, but the J&J management that "seemed to get it right" in 1982 have evidently all long since retired, judging by J&J's current legal mess.
  • Derf
    If a handful get caught, how many don't ?
    Derf
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