Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg
to step down immediately
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/23/2019 11:33:18 AM
Boeing’s CEO is resigning amid ongoing problems at the company over the troubled Max 737 aircraft. The board of directors said Monday that Dennis Muilenburg is stepping down immediately. The board’s current chairman David Calhoun will become president and CEO on Jan. 13. The board said a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the company as it works to repair relationships with regulators and stakeholders. Calhoun says he strongly believes in the future of Boeing and the 737 Max. The plane was involved with two deadly crashes. Board member Lawrence Kellner will become non-executive chairman of the board.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 12/23/2019 11:48:41 AM (No. 269922)
#1, now we know why they've had the recent screw-ups. Failing to hire the best and brightest they can find, instead following a racist/sexist/communist policy of hiring based on color or sex or ideology; is failing to maximize profits which is their responsibility to the stockholders as a publicly held company. Any officers of any publicly held company following a pc/'woke' set of hiring or firing policies should be immediately fired themselves, in order to protect the stockholders, which is a key responsibility of a company's officers.
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#1 that really makes me want to travel on a Boeing airliner...NOT!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NYBruin 12/23/2019 11:53:27 AM (No. 269926)
Two inexperienced (and poorly trained) pilots in Ethiopia and Indonesia crash planers and the US economy suffers for it. No plane is safe in the hands of someone who doesn't know what they are doing at the controls.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JL80863 12/23/2019 12:26:12 PM (No. 269941)
How typical. Bad decision making results in disaster so individual making the decisions grabs his golden parachute and disappears into the sunset. Someone else gets to pick up the pieces and hopefully save the jobs of employees. Humbug!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 12/23/2019 12:29:28 PM (No. 269942)
Good idea. If the problems are due to too many engineers hired by skin color, sex, or other things besides technical competence. THAT is a guaranteed route to disaster. Of all engineers, perhaps 10% are the brilliant people that you really need, and are damned hard to find. Putting other things ahead of competence means you will have lots of incompetence.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/23/2019 12:47:03 PM (No. 269955)
As a Boeing stockholder, I called for his resignation at the time of the second accident. The Board should have recognized his inability with crisis management and demanded his resignation for a public show. Unfortunately, the stock price eroded 30% and Airbus won a lot of new orders since then. Boeing seriously needs to re-evaluate sale of advanced aircraft to foreign airlines who inadequately train pilots and mechanics. Muilenburg was more interested in "making the numbers" than public safety, and that was his Achilles heel. Good riddance.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 12/23/2019 1:12:46 PM (No. 269978)
The 737 Max was no more or less aerodynamically stable than the 737 or any other aircraft. It had a flight envelope and stall characteristics that were no more likely to result in a stall than any aircraft flown within its specified CG limits and power settings. The change in the engine locations simply affected the way the fly by wire system "felt" to 737 Max pilots that were trained in the 737. Under high angle of attack attitudes such as might occur with a light load on takeoff the stick pressures needed to be adjusted by the MCAS system so that the aircraft felt like a 737. This allowed faster certification of the 737 Max without requiring 737 certified pilots to have to recertify in a new type saving costs and time. It was a reasonable design decision but Boeing underestimated the probability and safety impact of a single failure of the angle of attack sensors that had been specified in the design. The software modifications to cross verify both sensors for consistency were already in place in the code base and had been tested but were not activated by default. They were offered to some carriers as an additional safety option for a price.
The CEO change is a politically motivated "blood sacrifice" that will demonstrate enough deference to the FAA to assuage investors and foreign air carriers. Experienced pilots who know what happened with the two crashes understand that neither of these flights should ever have been allowed to leave the ground given the maintenance and training issues that were overlooked by the non domestic carriers.
If Boeing really wanted to "fix" this problem they would partner with the Joint Authorities Technical Review (JATR) board and institute a global data tracking and scoring system. This system would monitor aircraft maintenance, crew training and currency records, and other flight pre-requisite information in real time. It would generate an "flight readiness" score like a FICO score using an AI algorithm and report this to Boeing engineers. If the score was deemed below an acceptable safety profile, the engineers would have the authority to remotely ground the aircraft until there was a review of the conditions that indicated the problem. This kind of system would have prevented both of the 737 Max incidents and raised issues with the AOA failure assumptions made by Boeing.
I would be amazed if the airlines would accept this kind of oversight but from Boeing's standpoint it is their best defense against a system that applies strict liability to them for any crash just because they have the deepest pockets regardless of the contributory negligence of foreign airlines.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 12/23/2019 2:26:59 PM (No. 270012)
I think he was a Barry bro.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 12/23/2019 3:18:47 PM (No. 270029)
#6 & #8 - I am sure Muilenburg is so very, very glad that he is not Japanese ...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 12/23/2019 3:28:29 PM (No. 270033)
The 737 issue has been festering for awhile now. My gut instinct is that the embarrassment of this weekend's failed Starliner mission was the final nail in his coffin.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/23/2019 5:16:48 PM (No. 270079)
Yeah but, is the new CEO a neo-marxist infiltrator? They seem to be everywhere lately.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Pat26.2 12/23/2019 10:30:53 PM (No. 270206)
Boeing fired many of its experienced aeronautical software engineers and outsourced some of the Max software to Indian IT companies to save costs. I guess much of the delay is because so much of the software needs rewriting and rigorous testing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
pensom2 12/23/2019 10:57:32 PM (No. 270209)
My neighbor's son flies for American Airlines. I asked him how these crashes occurred. His explanation mirrored #9's explanation. The needed software was installed in aircraft sold to USA carriers, but many foreign carriers opted not to purchase the additional software. Boeing was foolhardy to offer the additional software only at additional cost. Every 737 MAX should should have had this software.
A CEO being paid $23 million a year should darn well run the company well enough to avoid these stupid mistakes.
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He has an outstanding exit package.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
franq 12/24/2019 8:57:34 AM (No. 270387)
Green goals are deadly. Thanks to posters for their explanations. I have never liked the idea of software instead of hardware. But that's just me. It's a tough business world. Amen to the Diversity comments. I see it in my own company. Still get the rainbow LGBTQ emails from time to time.
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Why? The company made Diversity and Inclusion a strategic priority. No matter that they added engines to the 737 that rendered it unstable, or cannot set a clock correctly in a space capsule with a Woman of Color dummy at the controls.