Dennis Muilenburg, chief govt officer of the Boeing Co., gestures through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Aviation Summit in Washington, D.C., on Thur
Dennis Muilenburg, chief govt officer of the Boeing Co., gestures through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Aviation Summit in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, March 7, 2019.
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Boeing‘s CEO Dennis Muilenburg is going through two congressional hearings this week to reply questions in regards to the design, certification and advertising and marketing of its flagship 737 Max planes — his first public appearances on Capitol Hill since two deadly crashes killed 346 individuals during the last yr.
The 2 crashes prompted a worldwide grounding of the 737 Max, Boeing’s best-seller, and probes of certification strategies utilized by the air security regulators that handed over extra duties to the producer, with the blessing of lawmakers themselves.
Lawmakers will quiz Muilenburg about production pressure on Boeing employees and the way the corporate marketed the airplane all over the world, touting that it did not require time-consuming coaching for pilots to modify from older fashions.
The world is watching
The hearings will probably be carefully watched by airways which have misplaced tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in income because of the grounding, pilots, buyers, regulators and victims’ members of the family, together with greater than a dozen who plan to attend the hearings and meet with Muilenburg afterward. Will probably be the primary time they’ve met with him, in line with a spokesman for…