Boeing replaces executive who oversaw 737 Max, other planes

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Boeing is replacing the head of its commercial airplanes division as it struggles with a crisis created by two deadly crashes of its newest airliner.

Boeing said Tuesday that Kevin McAllister is out as chief executive of Renton-based Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He is being replaced by Stanley Deal, leader of Boeing’s services division.

The shakeup in Boeing’s top ranks comes just days after the release of internal communications that showed a senior test pilot experienced serious problems while testing flight-control software for the 737 Max on a simulator. The Seattle Times later reported that the problems being discussed involved behavior unique to the simulator’s software and not related to a flight-control software malfunction of the actual airplane.

That software, called MCAS, is at the center of investigations into two crashes that killed 346 people and led to grounding of the Max. Boeing is taking much longer than executives expected to change the software and get the plane flying again.

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1. Things sure came off the rails in a hurry.

Once the real story hit the Presses,there was not any way Boeing Lobbyist could control the truth. When you file false performance and testing reports and you are found out,baby it ain't going to end well for you.

[abqtommy]

2. I want to see Boeing executives indicted, arrested, tried and sentenced to prison.

Justice demands it, not just me.

[malaise]

5. This

criminal negligence leading to manslaughter

[Sherman A1]

3. It isn't the software that is the problem

it is the design stretching the 1960s designed 737 beyond what it is capable of doing. The damn things should be scrapped in place.

[GulfCoast66]

4. Corporate greed and Wall Street pandering

Just heard on NPR this has now cost them 9 Billion and rising. With that much cash they could have gone the Airbus route and designed a new, fuel efficient plane suited for use for the next 40 years.

But no. They took the cheap way out to keep their investors happy. Now there are 500 people dead and they are in real trouble. Even if they get that Frankenstein of a plane in the air they will never catch up with Airbus and lots of Americans, myself included will never get on one of those planes.

They would be looking at bankruptcy except the US will never let them fail.