After important bits fell off one of his company’s planes, the CEO of Boeing committed his company to “ensure every next airplane that moves into the sky is, in fact, safe,” which is not exceptionally reassuring coming from a company that makes 88-ton pieces of metal and plastic that hurtle through the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, Reuters reports.
Discussing the blowout of an exit door plug from a flight out of Portland, Oregon last Friday, CEO Dave Calhoun told employees on an internal call that the loose bolts found on United and Alaska Airways Boeing 737 Max 9s were essentially a “quality control issue” and that the company was working with regulators and suppliers to ensure it “can never happen again.”