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A worker walks past a Boeing 737 Max 9 under construction at the aircraft
maker’s production facility in Renton, Washington, in February 2017. Photograph:
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A worker walks past a Boeing 737 Max 9 under construction at the aircraft
maker’s production facility in Renton, Washington, in February 2017. Photograph:
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Boeing



EX-BOEING MANAGER WOULD ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT’ FLY 737 MAX AFTER CABIN PANEL BLOWOUT

Former Boeing employee Ed Pierson expresses concern over 737 Max 9 jet’s return
to skies following Alaska Airlines incident



Callum Jones
Thu 1 Feb 2024 10.33 ESTFirst published on Thu 1 Feb 2024 09.31 EST
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A former Boeing manager says he would “absolutely not” fly on one of its 737 Max
planes as the aircraft maker faces heightened scrutiny after a cabin panel
blowout.

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The company has been fighting to reassure regulators, airlines and passengers
since a brand-new 737 Max 9 jet was forced into an emergency landing last month.

The dramatic incident during an Alaska Airlines flight – which prompted 171 Max
9 jets to be grounded for several weeks – has sparked the biggest safety crisis
for Boeing since the crashes of two of its Max 8 jets, in 2018 and 2019, in
which 346 people were killed.

“I would absolutely not fly a Max airplane,” Ed Pierson, a former senior manager
on Boeing’s 737 program, told the LA Times. “I’ve worked in the factory where
they were built, and I saw the pressure employees were under to rush the planes
out the door. I tried to get them to shut down before the first crash.”



Pierson, who left Boeing in 2018 and is now executive director at the Foundation
for Aviation Safety, expressed concern about the way in which regulators
permitted the Max 9 to return to service last week.

He told ABC7 San Francisco: “If you had a new car that had a part fall off of it
and you had to pull over to the side of the road, and then you went to the shop,
and the mechanic said, ‘Hey, I’m finding some other things wrong with it, but
here you go, ready to go get out on the road,’ you would probably have some
questions about [whether] anything else [has] been missed. So that’s a concern
that we’ve had.”

Although Boeing insists it has taken steps to strengthen its safety and quality
processes in recent years, its chief executive, Dave Calhoun, acknowledged on
Wednesday that the company has “more work to do” as it attempts to repair its
reputation.

“I would tell my family to avoid the Max,” Joe Jacobsen, an engineer who worked
at Boeing for a decade until 1995, also told the LA Times. “I would tell
everyone, really.”

Jacobsen later worked at the Federal Aviation Administration, and is now an
advocate for aviation safety.

Pierson described intense pressure faced by employees working on the Max
production line. “Everybody can relate to schedule pressure in any job,” he told
ABC7, “but when you’re building an airplane, you can’t afford to have those
kinds of issues.”

Boeing declined to comment on Pierson’s remarks.

Last week, Stan Deal, president of the company’s commercial airplanes division,
said winning back the confidence of “customers, our regulator and the flying
public” was its long-term focus. “Frankly, we have disappointed and let them
down,” he wrote to staff.

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