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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun (file photo)
Dave Calhoun, CEO of troubled aircraft manufacturer Boeing, will step down from his position by the end of this year. At the same time, Stan Deal, head and CEO of the commercial aircraft unit, will retire with immediate effect and the company’s Chief Operating Officer Stephanie Pope will take over this position.
In fact, three months ago, on January 5, the door of the Boeing 737-9 Max had fallen off at an altitude of 16 thousand feet. Due to this accident, this reorganization is being done in the management of the company. The company said the board appointed former Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf as the new chairman. At the same time, the search has begun for the person to replace Calhoun.
The accident happened while going from Portland to Ontario, California.
The emergency exit door of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 series aircraft was uprooted at an altitude of 16 thousand feet. According to the airlines, there were 171 passengers and 6 crew members on board the plane. The incident happened when the plane was on its way from Portland, California to Ontario. After take off, he broke the door of the plane and flew into the sky at a height of 16.32 thousand feet.
The film shows the Boeing 737 Max plane, after the door flew off, the pressure inside the plane dropped and the oxygen masks opened.
The shirt of the child sitting on the adjacent seat was torn by the uprooting of the door. Some passengers’ phones were also flying in the air. However, the child’s mother saved him from falling out of the plane. After this the plane made an emergency landing. According to local time, this incident happened around 5 pm. You can understand the location of the aircraft door from the graphic given below.
The door shown in the circle on the plane was dislodged during the flight. After this, the plane hastily landed.
Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft banned from flying after the accident
After the accident, there has been a temporary ban on flying Boeing 737-9 Max aircraft in America. At the same time, India’s aviation regulator DGCA had also asked airlines to inspect the emergency exit doors of the Boeing 737-8 Max aircraft included in their fleet.
A child was sitting on the seat next to the door. His shirt was torn. The plane was landed back in Portland within half an hour of take off.
The Boeing 737 Max plane has crashed several times
Boeing produced the 737 Max aircraft in 2015. The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) approved it in 2017. Since then it is the most used aircraft in the world. In 2018, this plane crashed for the first time while flying under an Indonesian airline. Around 189 people had died at that time.
After this, there was another Boeing 737 Max plane crash in March 2019. 157 people died in this. Three days later, the FAA banned this plane from flying. In 2021, Boeing paid a $2.5 billion fine to the US Department of Justice.
The picture comes from 2018, when a Boeing 737 Max plane crashed into the sea after taking off from Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.
After many claims related to the design and manufacture of the plane, the company spent billions to repair it. After this, this aircraft was allowed to fly again from 2020.
