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.
Well, I’m sure that’ll fix all the problems with that plane, right?
/s
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.
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.
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.