For Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun, the Alaska Air episode is another blow to his efforts to stabilize the company after half a decade of upheaval, coming just a few days into a new year he had heralded as crucial to a turnaround. Boeing is still feeling the reverberations of two deadly 737 Max crashes almost five years ago that shook confidence in the company. Now Boeings fraught relationship with its biggest supplier — Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. — stands to face fresh scrutiny.
In just months, Boeing Co. has suffered a series of quality lapses that threaten to erode trust in the manufacturing prowess of the biggest US exporter notably its 737 Max aircraft, a crucial cash cow.
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Wrongly drilled holes, loose rudder bolts, and now a fuselage section that ejected during flight on a new aircraft, leaving terrified passengers exposed to a gaping hole in the cabin at 16,000 feet. In recent months, Boeing Co. has suffered a series of quality lapses that threaten to erode trus.