Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun testifies as new whistleblower emerges

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun testified Tuesday before a Senate investigations subcommittee that grilled him on safety concerns following recent mishaps with some of the company's fleet. Calhoun was asked about Boeing's culture of secrecy as a new whistleblower report claims some parts used to build the 737 Max did not meet standards.

[aggressivelyrelaxing]

He explain to the committee he's killed before and he's not afraid to do it again.

[Fellowtellurian]

Using words like “elevate” and “gravity” while talking about a plane crash is wild.

[lisalee]

Absolutely Disgusting this guy is WAY over paid

[jayrisher]

"Ill get back to you with those numbers" Lies, Lies, and more Lies

He says he's committed to resolving the concerns from employees but hasn't talked to one whistleblower? Yikes...

[catgarza]

My husband was a safety guy at a manufacturer. Retaliation is very real. All the way from the top to hourly employees.

[williamm]

Boeing about to unalive another whistleblower

[YJI]

As someone who has worked for Boeing and was also fired by them (mind you I've never been fired before, rather I've received high remarks during previous employments), I could assure everyone that Dave Calhoun is being extremely evasive/deceitful with statements such as him/Boeing prioritizing safety and being against retaliation of whistleblowers. Not that it would come to anyone's surprise by now... but just saying from someone who has inside knowledge, Boeing's "Just Culture" was quite the dystopian place where management would "talk" to you verbally so there's no paper trail, combined with most employees that are just dead inside but believe religiously how Boeing's the best company on the planet.

I don't know how to explain it, but out of all my years of job hopping, that place gave me the creeps cause the only employees that have dedicated their careers to Boeing and were still there, were absolutely 'zombiefied'. Like, think of the Company Man back when pensions were a thing, but now remove essentially all experience, skill, personality, culture out of them, completely strip them of everything that would make those employees "human", and that's basically the modern day backbone of Boeing. The vast majority of these employees, if they were to leave Boeing tomorrow, they'd have absolute zero marketable skills to be able to find another job, which only further adds to their 'loyalty' to Boeing. It really was very sad and depressing working there. Like I said at the beginning, I've never been fired before, and for Boeing to fire me because I'm in the military and needed to perform my annual military obligations, in a weird way I do appreciate the silver lining of my termination because who knows what would've happened if they didn't fire me. I got bills I gotta pay, and wouldn't have left because of my need for an income. Like, how does that saying go? "If you stick around long enough, you'll see yourself turn into the villain."

[alexl.]

Instead of answering the questions, he is giving all this gibberish!!! POLITICS!!!! This is not about Boeing, People, Customers, etc. It seems that personal goals and gains are important whereas people are nothing. The fu.... salary, or compensation, in millions of dollars is the real interest, the lifestyle, and so on!!! It seems that nobody cares about the USA's "face, " called Boeing!!! This is a reality!!!!

[alooga]

Boeing needs to headhunt a new CEO from Airbus.

[petgranny]

Calhoun has an accounting degree. 1998 GE accident -> 2024 Alaska door (totally skipped the fatal Max flights). Speak up if you see a problem, but don't tell anyone you did??? And a new whistleblower was threatened right before this hearing... Calhoun: "Something went wrong" when a whistle-blower was threatened by his supervisor. Company needs to be on probation and FAA inspectors need to be more active with doing ACTUAL inspections. Self regulation clearly does NOT work. Boeing used to have its own machine shops rather than importing defective parts.

[juangarcia-gvjy]

How about go to the factory and fix the problems instead of just talking about how bad Boeings are!

[dorthymcbride]

I respect this hearing as a past employee who has a strong belief in our planes. The employees who lost their lives should be investigated!!

[patrickmacdonald]

Huh? I've only briefly worked in aviation PR and even I know that he shouldn't have referred to Alaska Airlines as an "accident". It wasn't an accident, it was an "incident" by way of aviation risk terminology.

[jaysongardner]

in before the latest whistle blower wakes up unalive.

[Zero_ss]

He is being rewarded for his incompetence with an easy money seat on the board of the company after this.

[alexrebmann]

Hope we have not heard the last of Dennis Muillenburg.. He is the one that should go to jail for he was the CEO when the two
Max crashed.

[samm]

He is a liar, they / he did not listen to anyone. He knows nothing about the company he supposedly runs. He should be well versed on absolutely everything! He speaks of a an employee survey.. what the actual hell!! He is the ceo and speaks of a general survey? As a response to planes falling out of the sky!! Ridiculous

[jeromehugh]

Well he is still walking away with $30 million for all the good things that happened to Boeing in last few years.

[charliecurilan]

Following the deaths of two Boeing whistleblowers, an attorney who represented them says there are at least 10 more who are determined to come forward.
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems turned whistleblower, died last week after a sudden illness. His death came less than two months after another Boeing whistleblower, John Barnett, was found dead of a gunshot wound that authorities said appeared to be self-inflicted. --Newsweek