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News Flash: January 22, 2020
New CEO Calhoun to build MOM in two years:
Based on all he has learned in the aviation business Calhoun believes we at
Boeing, with our innovative manufacturing can have the new plane in service
In about two and a half years
Calhoun’s brilliant idea for the new logo is {The NMA}
It should be noted that Calhoun will be out at the age of 65, in three years
In accordance with Boeing’s mandatory retirement age
We at Boeing look forward to sending Mr. Calhoun out using a TOGA Ceremony
At our flight line in Renton for his retirement Going Away Party
A thoughtful post of substance rather than buffoonery: Thank you
As more of Boeing’s misconduct and cover-ups are revealed, it is as if Corporate
Management used the movie Airplane as an operational manual. {Buffoonery}
- Good article; the last paragraph is spot on.
@1337AoWz-4uih Dutch crash near Amsterdam
@1337AoWz-4mzc Turkish Airlines Flight 1951
LION Air Flight 610
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T5xhHzZjPQ
ETHOPIAN Flight 302
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5P8CkVckmA
CFM56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUPZ_KJrWc
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Boeing faces Max hurdle as pilot confidence crumbles
JANUARY 22, 2020
Pilots’ unions say that their members’ trust in the safety culture at Boeing is at rock bottom following a string of revelations about the grounded 737 Max, presenting another big hurdle for the manufacturer as its seeks to return the jet to service.
The company has already admitted it does not expect to persuade regulators to lift the grounding until at least the middle of the year, but it must also resolve a crisis of confidence among captains, on whom it is counting to restore the trust of the flying public.
Trust is “unequivocally” at a nadir, said Jon Horne, president of the European C—pit Association, following the publication earlier this month of damaging internal messages in which employees mocked regulators and discouraged airlines from pursuing the most expensive pilot training options.
Pilots want to mend ties, said Dennis Tajer, spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, which represents 15,000 American Airlines pilots. But trust has been rebuilt and shattered more than once.
“It’s like a Jenga game, [trust] gets higher and higher, and then it tumbles down,” he said. “These emails are beyond our worst nightmares. It’s as if it’s a poorly written screenplay that no one would believe — but it happened.”
It is tempting to use pilots as PR stunts with pilot testimonies for Boeing, but that’s not our role
Jon Weaks, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association, which is suing Boeing, said the company starts at “zero trust” with the union’s 10,000 members. Southwest’s union sued the manufacturer in October, saying Boeing had rushed to deliver the Max “into the hands of trusting pilots” despite its problems.
The skepticism is a reversal for a company that once enjoyed such c—pit popularity that pilots would quip: “If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going.” It also undercuts the company’s strategy for returning the Max to service.
The company has distributed marketing materials to airlines that suggest one option to handle passengers who balk at flying the Max in the future will be to have pilots reassure them.
The same materials include video of Jim Webb, Boeing’s chief commercial pilot, and say the company can provide airlines with a customer-soothing toolkit that includes videos featuring pilots.
“It is tempting to use pilots as PR stunts with pilot testimonies for Boeing, but that’s not our role,” said Jon Horne, president of the 40,000-strong European C—pit Association. “It is the regulators that have the access to the information.”
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Two crashes of 737 Max jets in the space of five months k–led 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The flight control system later implicated in the disasters had not been mentioned in the flight manual. The American Airlines pilots union met with Boeing executives after the first crash and encouraged regulatory action that likely would have grounded the plane, but Boeing resisted.
After the second disaster, then Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg further upset pilots with remarks that seemed to blame pilots for the crashes.
A pilot at a large European airline who asked not to be identified said trust for Boeing was at “an all-time low”. He said he wanted to see the company and regulators “come clean with all the new systems that are different to past models, and come up with a comprehensive training plan, not just a three-hour iPad course”.
In a move that could help relations, Boeing earlier this month reversed its longtime position and recommended that 737 Max pilots train in a flight simulator. Mr Tajer said his union’s safety expert had a phone call last week with representatives from Boeing to discuss the details of training.
“We’re very focused on working with flight crews and our airline customers to re-earn their trust,” a Boeing spokesman said.
Boeing has “a long way to go” to restore trust with the pilots in the European C—pit Association, Mr Horne said.
“It has lost its credibility as a manufacturer and failed in its response to the problem. They still don’t get what it is they did wrong, they have been in denial, and there’s questions over the culture at the company . . . It gives us the worry that they aren’t able to sort out their house.”
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