Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun departs from a meeting at the office of Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) on Capitol Hill January 24 in Washington, DC.
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Not surprisingly for a hearing entitled “Boeing’s broken safety culture,” the hearing Tuesday will include harsh criticism of the company and its CEO, Dave Calhoun, who is testifying before Congress for the first time in his more than four years running the troubled company.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat who chairs the committee, released his planned opening remarks chock full of criticism of Boeing and Calhoun specifically.
He’ll accuse Calhoun of putting profits ahead of airplane safety, of leading a company where those raising safety concerns regularly faced retaliation, despite the claims otherwise from management.
Blumenthal said he and others had hoped that Calhoun would change the culture and practices at Boeing for the better when he took over as CEO in January 2020, 10 months into a 20-month grounding of the 737 Max that followed two fatal crashes.
