Boeing CEO David Calhoun is making his first appearance on Capitol Hill since a panel blew out of a Boeing 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
Boeing’s chief executive will testify before a Senate panel where he will face questioning over safety issues and manufacturing problems with the plane maker.CEO David Calhoun is appearing before the Senate investigations committee on Tuesday, marking his first appearance before Congress by Calhoun since a panel blew out of a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
In May, the Justice Department said Boeing violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after the deadly crashes.Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who chairs the Senate investigations committee, first asked Calhoun to appear before the committee after a whistleblower, a Boeing quality engineer, alleged that manufacturing mistakes were raising safety risks on two of the biggest Boeing planes, the 787 Dreamliner and the 777.
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