Boeing’s Dave Calhoun is under intense scrutiny.
As CEO he spoke earlier this week to his staff after an Alaska Airlines plane landed safely after suffering a blowout in mid-air.
No one was injured when an unused cabin door broke away on the flight. But since that incident on Saturday, federal officials ordered that all Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners be grounded.
How big a crisis is this for the U.S. plane maker and its 140,000 workers?
Peter Robison is a senior reporter at Bloomberg News and author of “Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing.”
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