Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and two other senior executives announced Monday that they are stepping down from their positions.
“The FAA administrator talked about concerns that arose when he visited their manufacturing facility,” Buttigieg said on Fox News’s. “Not just day-to-day operations, but really a question about culture: Are they prioritizing safety? And what we saw was a lot of focus on production. Of course, production is important, but the most important thing is safety.”
The secretary was pressed on whether he viewed Calhoun’s resignation as good news. Buttigieg stressed that he would not take a side on Boeing’s leadership, only saying that the next leader should lead the company “in a direction towards safety.” “So what I’ll say is that whoever is going to lead Boeing going forward needs to lead Boeing in a direction where culturally and operationally, they are 1,000% on top of all quality and safety issues,” he added. “And FAA’s taken an extraordinary step of restricting how many aircraft they can produce isn’t going to allow them to produce any higher numbers of aircraft until and unless they can demonstrate that they can do it safely.
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