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    Boeing CEO Set to Resign Amid Controversial Safety Concerns

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    According to recent reports, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is set to step down from his leadership position in the company at the end of the year.  Additionally, the chairman of the board, Larry Kellner, will also resign following the perpetual controversy the company has been embroiled in.

    Over the past few years, Boeing has faced a number of safety concerns with its products, with several significant incidents occurring in the past month alone.  For example, the aviation manufacturer made headlines throughout March for several high-profile engine and gear failures.

    “My decision to step down as CEO at the end of this year is one the board has been prepared for and will result in a number of changes at a management and governance level moving forward,” Calhoun wrote in an internal message to employees on Monday.

    In light of his departure from the position, Calhoun maintained that the company will remain committed to its initiatives to put the safety and quality of its products at the forefront of business operations.  “As we begin this period of transition, I want to assure you, we will remain squarely focused on completing the work we have done together to return our company to stability after the extraordinary challenges of the past five years, with safety and quality at the forefront of everything that we do,” he concluded in the memo.

    Per a February Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) report, numerous safety concerns were discovered surrounding Boeing’s operations.  Congress mandated the investigation following devastating accidents in 2018 and 2019 that resulted in nearly 350 deaths.

    Former Boeing senior manager turned whistleblower Ed Pierson slammed the company’s executive leadership earlier this month for not listening to his warnings regarding potential quality control issues.  Pierson suggested that the entire C-suite in the company should be cleared out amid the slew of problems the company has faced.

    “My number one recommendation is that the C-suite needs to go,” Pierson told Newsnation.  ” “I mean, they are crushing the company. They are allowing one bad thing after the next, and they just keep making a bunch of broken promises and it’s not happening and the proof is in the pudding.”

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    Amid the endless controversy surrounding Boeing, the American Tribune reported on the untimely death of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, which has aroused suspicions.  The 62-year-old, who raised concerns about Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, was found dead in his truck in early March from a supposed self-inflicted gunshot wound.
    Fueling skepticism around the whistleblower’s death, those close to Barnett claim he told them not to believe any reports that would suggest he committed suicide if he turned up dead.  According to a “close family friend” Barnett’s, the now-deceased man recently said, “I ain’t scared … but if anything happens to me it’s not suicide.”
    “I know he did not commit suicide there’s no way. He loved life too much, he loved his family too much, he loved his brothers too much to put them through what they’re going through right now…I think somebody didn’t like what he had to say and wanted to shut him up and didn’t want it to come back on anyone so that’s why they made it look like a suicide,” the family friend added.
    Featured image credit:  Narendra Modi, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dave_Calhoun.png