2024-01-10 08:42:39
In the first public admission, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun admitted on Tuesday that the company had made a mistake in connection with an incident where one of the doors of an Alaska Airlines plane separated following take-off. Following Friday’s accident, the US Federal Aviation Administration ordered 171 aircraft of this type to be grounded pending inspection. Boeing has faced many production problems since the complete shutdown of the 737 MAX family in March 2019, which lasted 20 months, following two crashes during 2018 and 2019 that killed regarding 350 people.
Published on: 01/10/2024 – 09:42
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Boeing, through its CEO, Dave Calhoun, acknowledged on Tuesday that his giant company in the aerospace industry was responsible for… The accident involving an Alaska Airlines flight Friday, pledging “full transparency” in this file.
Calhoun’s admission came during a meeting at a Boeing factory in Renton, Washington, in which he pledged to “deal with this issue by admitting we were wrong.”
He added, according to a Boeing spokesman, “We will deal with it with absolute and complete transparency at every step.”
Calhoun stressed that Boeing will rely on the US Civil Aviation Regulatory Authority “to ensure that all aircraft authorized to fly are safe and to ensure that this incident does not happen once more.” But he insisted that “every detail is important.”
Calhoun did not clarify what he specifically meant when he spoke of his company’s “mistake” in the accident in which an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 plane was forced to make an emergency landing following the plane’s emergency exit plug separated while it was flying on a domestic flight from Portland ( Oregon) to Ontario (California).
The statement by Boeing’s CEO came the day following the American airline Alaska Airlines announced that it had discovered “barely installed parts” in some of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, three days following one of its aircraft of the same model was involved in an accident while in flight.
The Alaska Airlines statement was followed by an announcement by the American airline United Airlines that it had discovered, during an initial inspection of the canceled emergency exits in its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, a number of screws that were not well tightened.
Following Friday’s accident, the US Federal Aviation Administration ordered 171 aircraft of this type to be grounded pending inspection.
The Boeing 737 MAX 9 is equipped with many emergency exits. Therefore, Boeing offers its customers the possibility of eliminating some of these exits using plugs if the number of remaining exits is sufficient compared to the number of seats on the plane.
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