Boeing introduced a administration shakeup – together with the ouster of the chief of the 737 Max manufacturing line. On the Singapore Airshow, miniature fashions of Boeing plane together with the 737 Max (entrance) are displayed on February 21, 2024.
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Boeing introduced a administration shakeup – together with the ouster of the chief of the 737 Max manufacturing line. On the Singapore Airshow, miniature fashions of Boeing plane together with the 737 Max (entrance) are displayed on February 21, 2024.
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The Boeing govt who oversaw the corporate’s troubled 737 Max program is out — a part of a broader management change the corporate introduced on Wednesday.
The shakeup comes amid intense scrutiny of Boeing’s high quality management after a door plug panel from a 737 Max 9 plane blew off throughout an Alaska Airways flight final month.
Boeing govt Ed Clark, who was accountable for the 737 Max program, has left the corporate. Clark oversaw Boeing’s manufacturing unit in Renton, Washington the place the aircraft that turned Alaska Airways flight 1282 was assembled.
His departure was introduced in a memo to the corporate’s workers from Stan Deal, the CEO of Boeing’s business airplanes division. Clark is leaving the corporate with ”my, and our, deepest gratitude for his many important contributions over almost 18 years of devoted service to Boeing,” Deal wrote.
That is not the one management change Boeing introduced. Elizabeth Lund will fill the newly-created place of senior vice chairman of high quality, the place ”she’s going to lead our high quality management and high quality assurance efforts, in addition to the standard initiatives we lately introduced,” Deal stated.
Katie Ringgold was named Clark’s successor as vice chairman and normal supervisor of the 737 program and Renton, Wash. plant.
Nobody was critically injured in the Alaska Airways incident, however preliminary findings by the Nationwide Transportation Security Board discovered that 4 key bolts weren’t re-installed on the brand new jet earlier than it left the Renton manufacturing unit final 12 months. The door plug needed to be eliminated to repair rivet issues on the outside fuselage when it was delivered to Boeing by contractor Spirit AeroSystems.
This follows two deadly crashes of 737 Max 8 plane in 2018 and 2019 which killed a complete of 346 individuals.
The administration shakeup at Boeing comes forward of a deliberate assembly between CEO Dave Calhoun and Mike Whitaker, the top of the FAA. Whitaker traveled to Renton to tour the Boeing 737 plant and meet with FAA staff on the bottom.