Posted on 10/22/2019 11:54:52 PM PDT by Old Yeller
McAllister's ouster as the head of the Renton-headquartered Boeing Commercial Airplanes unit comes after less than three years on the job and a day after Boeing's board of directors met in Texas.
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They offered me the job.
Replaced by Stan Deal (a.k.a Stan the Caddy).
A symbolic firing is not going to instil confidence.
If justice demands it, I think jail may be warranted for some people...
Misleading title.
He headed the entire commercial aircraft division.
Not really, it’s called Corporate Deflection. Boeing wants everyone to be looking at Him as they march the herd of elephants 🐘 right past everyone and out the door.
Well, I’m sure that’ll fix all the problems with that plane, right?
/s
Re: I think jail may be warranted for some people...
That’s absurd.
The 737 MAX flew in North America, Europe, and wealthy Asian countries for two years.
No accidents, no close calls, and no incident reports related to the alleged cause of the two fatal crashes in Third World countries with Muslim pilots.
48 hours after the most recent “Bombshell” internal document was leaked, we learn that a Simulator “crash” was caused by a Simulator malfunction, not by actual 737 MAX data.
Bottom Line - Tort lawyers looking for a huge pay day. European bureaucrats looking for a hugely successful USA company to destroy. And Third World Muslim countries looking for an opportunity to shriek “Racism!”
The 737 MAX ordeal along with the other revelations concerning shoddy manufacturing, assembly has certainly changed my perception of Boeing products.
Kicks the ‘If it ain’t Boeing I ain’t going’ right’ in the butt.
(The 757 still my favorite ride)
Kevin, you mean “Home Alone” Kevin?
The accountant bean counters and MBAs are the ones at fault.
Good post.
That was my first thought.
Based on my many years in the technology business I agree with your sense as to who is most likely at fault. MBAs and bean counters have ruined many a good company. They are myopic in the sense that they can only understand that which can be measured while often it is managing that which cannot be measured that is more critical.
I would have to assume that they investigated and found evidence of something like an E-Mail saying: “It’s not our problem if the pilots don’t know how to recover from a runaway stabilizer”, after the first or second accident. Or perhaps something like: “Pilots are trained to deal with runway stabilizers, so no reason to go through hoops to prevent that situation with extra redundancy”, before the first accident.
The above is just pure speculation, but typically the big hauncho sets the tone for the organization and the people who knew better, the ones reading the incident reports when the pilots did recover, were scared to elevate the problem and take action.
I’m just surprised it took this long to start holding people accountable.
agreed
Unless he was involved in the decision to have it typed as another 737, he’s a scapegoat.
Yeah, not a big confidence booster, that's for sure. Boeing is basically admitting that they screwed up.
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