Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s future is inextricably tied to that of the grounded 737 Max airliner.
Boeing Co. is entering a crucial month for its grounded 737 Max jetliner and its chief executive officer.
“This is not about me, right? It’s about our company and what we do for our customers,” Muilenburg said in an interview when asked if he is the right person to lead Boeing through the crisis. “I will serve in this role with everything that I have as long as the board wants me serving in this role.”Muilenburg, an aerospace engineer by training and Boeing lifer, has served as the planemaker’s public face throughout the Max crisis.
Muilenburg will have a chance to respond publicly in an address to the Economic Club of New York later Wednesday. He also faces a grilling before the U.S. Congress on Oct. 30, a year and a day after a Lion Air jet plunged into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. An Ethiopian Airlines jet fell out of the sky less than five months later.
Boeing has taken to heart the aerospace industry’s tradition of studying tragedies for ways to make flying safer, Muilenburg said in the interview at Boeing’s Chicago headquarters. But he reiterated Boeing’s oft-repeated refrain that there was no breakdown in the design and testing of the software feature known as MCAS that was implicated in both tragedies.
In addition to the board oversight panel, Boeing is establishing a new product and services safety organization, which will have sweeping responsibility including investigating concerns raised anonymously by employees. “If you’re Dennis, the program that matters absolutely the most to you beyond any other at the company is the 737,” said George Ferguson, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence. “You have to get that right.”
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