«The beginning of this report quoted Harry Stonecipher, the Chief Executive Officer of McDonnell Douglas who became the President and Chief Operating Officer of Boeing, who in 2004 told the Chicago Tribune: “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”
...Boeing has gone from being a great engineering company to being a big business focused on financial success. Continuing on the same path it followed with the 737 MAX, where safety was sacrificed to production pressures, exposes the company to potentially repeating those mistakes...
Keith Leverkuhn, the former senior-most official on Boeing’s 737 MAX program ... appeared unable or unwilling to either take responsibility for any of the problems that occurred on the MAX program or to even acknowledge that any problems existed at all...
Indeed, producing a [regulatory] compliant aircraft that proved unsafe should have been an immediate wake-up call to both Boeing and the FAA that the current regulatory system that certified the MAX is broken. Unfortunately, serious questions remain as to whether Boeing and the FAA have fully and correctly learned the lessons from the MAX failures.»
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