Boeing introduced a administration shakeup – together with the ouster of the chief of the 737 Max manufacturing line. At 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. At 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 government who oversaw the firm’s troubled 737 Max program is out — half of a broader management change the firm introduced on Wednesday.
The shakeup comes amid intense scrutiny of Boeing’s quality control after a door plug panel from a 737 Max 9 plane blew off throughout an Alaska Airlines flight final month.
Boeing government Ed Clark, who was in cost of the 737 Max program, has left the firm. Clark oversaw Boeing’s manufacturing unit in Renton, Washington the place the aircraft that turned Alaska Airlines flight 1282 was assembled.
His departure was introduced in a memo to the firm’s employees from Stan Deal, the CEO of Boeing’s business airplanes division. Clark is leaving the firm with “my, and our, deepest gratitude for his many significant contributions over nearly 18 years of dedicated service to Boeing,” Deal wrote.
That’s not the solely management change Boeing introduced. Elizabeth Lund will fill the newly-created place of senior vp of quality, the place “she will lead our quality control and quality assurance efforts, as well as the quality initiatives we recently announced,” Deal mentioned.
Katie Ringgold was named Clark’s successor as vp and normal supervisor of the 737 program and Renton, Wash. plant.
No one was critically injured in the Alaska Airlines incident, however preliminary findings by the National Transportation Safety Board discovered that four key bolts were not re-installed on the 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 exterior fuselage when it was delivered to Boeing by contractor Spirit AeroSystems.
This follows two fatal crashes of 737 Max 8 aircraft 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 head of the FAA. Whitaker traveled to Renton to tour the Boeing 737 plant and meet with FAA workers on the floor.