Boeing CEO loses chairman title

https://www.axios.com/boeing-ceo-den...858c45d89.html

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will no longer serve as chairman of the board of
directors as he focuses on returning "the 737 MAX safely to service," the
company announced in a Friday press release.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...300937391.html

Where it stands: Boeing is separating the roles of chairman and CEO. David
Calhoun, Boeing's current independent lead director, will take on the role of
elected non-executive chairman, as Muilenburg stays on as president and
director.

The big pictu Muilenburg is scheduled to testify in front of Congress on Oct.
30 to address the two Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that
killed 346 people over the past year.

•A panel convened by the Federal Aviation Administration found on Friday that
the Boeing 737 flight control system — suspected of causing both crashes — was
not evaluated in concert with other systems.



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Miloch wrote in
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https://www.axios.com/boeing-ceo-den...an-e9e8cb34-d7
13-4e54-ab0b-3ce858c45d89.html

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will no longer serve as chairman of the
board of directors as he focuses on returning "the 737 MAX safely to
service," the company announced in a Friday press release.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...directors-sepa
rates-ceo-and-chairman-roles-300937391.html

Where it stands: Boeing is separating the roles of chairman and CEO.
David Calhoun, Boeing's current independent lead director, will take
on the role of elected non-executive chairman, as Muilenburg stays on
as president and director.

The big pictu Muilenburg is scheduled to testify in front of
Congress on Oct. 30 to address the two Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes in
Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people over the past year.

•A panel convened by the Federal Aviation Administration found on
Friday that the Boeing 737 flight control system — suspected of
causing both crashes — was not evaluated in concert with other
systems.



I am amazed Boeing stockholders haven't strung
up the entire Board from the nearest lampposts
for their malfeasance over the Supermax debacle.

Biggest catastrophe in the company's history
and NO ONE has been held accountable.

In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.


9 months is a long time to repair any
computer problem, esp. when airlines
are cancelling orders on a weekly basis.

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:33:05 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.


9 months is a long time to repair any
computer problem, esp. when airlines
are cancelling orders on a weekly basis.



Depends on the problem and how/what people they have on the job. Some
problems can be so fraking stupid or hard, it would be best to simple
erase and start over. But THAT decision requites a lot of
administrative courage...

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 20:33:05 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

R2D2 wrote in :

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 13:40:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:


In the meantime the "software glitch" that has
not been found after months of search is keeping
hundreds of planes idled and hundreds more stalled
in production.

Which probably means it's more than just a glitch, but something that
requires a very extensive and expensive mod, which Boeing will have to
pay.


9 months is a long time to repair any
computer problem, esp. when airlines
are cancelling orders on a weekly basis.



Depends on the problem and how/what people they have on the job. Some
problems can be so fraking stupid or hard, it would be best to simple
erase and start over. But THAT decision requites a lot of
administrative courage...


Billions of dollars in sales being lost
should be all the courage needed to rip out
the current computers and install one that
work in their other models.

On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:45:58 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:




Billions of dollars in sales being lost
should be all the courage needed to rip out
the current computers and install one that
work in their other models.


It's not a hardware problem (which isn't that hard to fix), it's a
software problem (which is an utter bitch to fix). The aircraftt was
altered from theother models in ways that made new software necessary.
But I guess they messed up the testing. And then covered it up.