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thewayneEd Clark had been in charge of the Max program for almost three years. He came up through the ranks and had been with Boeing for 18 years, having previously been chief engineer and chief 737 mechanic. He knows the plane.
This is purely sacrificial, a move by the board to appease investors. There was also a shuffling of directors and the creation of a new director position. See: Titanic and deck chair rearrangement. If they don't stop putting shareholder return above safety, it's not going to do a damn thing to improve the situation. Clark was not the reason those bolts weren't there, it was the board's drive for money by more rapidly pushing the planes out the door and increasing deliverables. Also a crappy ticketing system.
And this is what the board is trying to appease: "Beyond the problems that have resulted in the grounding of the 737 Max 8 and Max 9 after the incidents, the problems at Boeing have also postponed certification of two new versions of the jet, the Max 7 and a stretched version, the Max 10.
The CEOs of three key Boeing customers – United Airlines, Southwest and Delta Air Lines – have recently all said they no longer are counting on getting those new versions of the planes they had ordered anytime soon. United CEO Scott Kirby referred to the Alaska Air incident as the “straw that broke the camel’s back” in terms of his airline’s planning assumptions for the Max 10." Southwest's entire fleet is almost 100% 737. They did this to standardize maintenance operations. If Southwest is willing to break that up, that's seriously bad news for Boeing.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/business/boeing-removes-head-of-737-max-program-in-wake-of-safety-incidents/index.html
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/02/24/0553215/boeing-removes-head-of-its-737-max-program-after-januarys-door-bolts-incident
This is purely sacrificial, a move by the board to appease investors. There was also a shuffling of directors and the creation of a new director position. See: Titanic and deck chair rearrangement. If they don't stop putting shareholder return above safety, it's not going to do a damn thing to improve the situation. Clark was not the reason those bolts weren't there, it was the board's drive for money by more rapidly pushing the planes out the door and increasing deliverables. Also a crappy ticketing system.
And this is what the board is trying to appease: "Beyond the problems that have resulted in the grounding of the 737 Max 8 and Max 9 after the incidents, the problems at Boeing have also postponed certification of two new versions of the jet, the Max 7 and a stretched version, the Max 10.
The CEOs of three key Boeing customers – United Airlines, Southwest and Delta Air Lines – have recently all said they no longer are counting on getting those new versions of the planes they had ordered anytime soon. United CEO Scott Kirby referred to the Alaska Air incident as the “straw that broke the camel’s back” in terms of his airline’s planning assumptions for the Max 10." Southwest's entire fleet is almost 100% 737. They did this to standardize maintenance operations. If Southwest is willing to break that up, that's seriously bad news for Boeing.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/business/boeing-removes-head-of-737-max-program-in-wake-of-safety-incidents/index.html
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/02/24/0553215/boeing-removes-head-of-its-737-max-program-after-januarys-door-bolts-incident
