Comment on Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7
Deebster@programming.dev 9 months agoDennis Muilenburg, the CEO during the 737 Max crashes, was an engineer by training:
He received a bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University, followed by a master’s degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington.
And, of course, even though he put profits ahead of safety and is therefore partially responsible for hundreds of deaths, he walked away with a $62.2 million golden parachute. The incentives are not aligned with safety, aside from how it affects their share price.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I keep seeing people say this and
Obviously Muilenberg didn’t fix everything wrong with the company during his time there, for all i know he made it worse. However, i keep seeing this cited as some kind of own to the critique of modern Boeing and it isn’t. It just isn’t.
Deebster@programming.dev 9 months ago
I was responding to “the bean counters running the company need to be replaced with engineers” by pointing out that the man at the top is, at least by training, an engineer.
Let’s look at the timeline:
An aerospace analyst writes:
Are you seriously arguing that a man who is qualified to see the problems and dangers of the 737 Max and then chose to ignore them in favour of pressuring regulators and collecting profits shouldn’t be held responsible? He was in a senior position while the development happened and was in the top stop when it was certified. If the head of the company shouldn’t be held responsible, who should be?
Ignoring his time as president, four years is definitely enough time to see what kind of leader he was, and all of the internal messages coming out show no attempt to change the culture.