Dave Calhoun, CEO of Boeing, acknowledged the responsibility of his giant airline company for the accident that occurred on the Alaska Airlines flight on Friday, pledging “full transparency” in this file.
“We will address this issue by admitting our mistake,” Calhoun said during a meeting at a Boeing factory in Renton, Washington.
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 again.”
The Boeing CEO 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 after the plane’s emergency exit plug separated while it was flying on a domestic flight from Portland ( Oregon) to Ontario (California).
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The statement by Boeing’s CEO came the day after the American airline Alaska Airlines announced that it had discovered “bad parts” in some of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, three days after 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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2024-01-10 03:06:39
