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0 pointsPhantomGremlin6y ago0 comments

Companies like boeing should be managed by engineers not salespeople.

Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO, is an engineer.[0] And he apparently doesn't even have an MBA. It's hard to know exactly how and when he became seduced by the dark side.

Here's a summary (which I've posted before) of his egregiously bad behavior:

   Oct 29, 2018 Lion Air crash, 189 dead

   Nov 10, 2018 pilots already talking about Boeing
   emergency airworthiness directive related to MCAS[1]

   Mar 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash kills 157

   Mar 11, 2019 Boeing CEO "confident in 737 MAX safety"[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg

[1] https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircra...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-boeing-ceo...

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tastygreenapple6y ago

The last CEO, James McNerney, was some Yale B.A dude with a Harvard MBA. The 737 MAX is fruit of the poison tree.

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