The Boeing management was back in crisis mode after a deadly Air India 787-8 Dreamliner crash for minutes after takeoff earlier on the day.
The new CEO of Planemaker Kelly Ortberg was set up to go to the Paris Aviation Show, the biggest events this year, after several key successes in recent weeks, trying to rebuild public confidence in Boeing after a number of security and manufacturing crises.
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But his plan to participate in the next week with the head of commercial Boeing Stephanie Pope aircraft was discarded, Ortberg said because the company focuses on the investigation of the first nozzle crash 787, its most advanced model.
“When our industry is preparing for the opening of the Paris Aviation Show, Stephanie (Pope) and I both canceled the plans for participation so that we could be with our team and focus on our customer and investigation,” Ortberg wrote on Thursday evening in the employees who were seen by Reuters.
The Air India, which joined in London, crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad and killed almost all 242 people on board, in the worst air disaster in the world in ten years.
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Air security safety experts said there was no reason to think that the problem of production or design was the cause, but the reason for the air disaster is not clear.
“Safety is the basis of our industry and is the core of everything we do,” Ortberg told employees. “Our technical experts are ready to help investigators to understand the circumstances, and the Boeing team is ready to travel to India.”
The biggest challenge for Boeing could be laymen to understand that while the nozzle that crashed is unlikely to blame Boeing, John Nance, an aviation safety expert and a former commercial pilot. Of course, investigators of accidents will consider every possibility, he added.
With the public perception of Planemaker, still on the unsolved soil that falls on the executives of the Boeing workers to deal with. Ortberg tried to move the company by a number of regulatory and security crises and after a busy month, which included more than 300 new orders in 737 production, heading to the Paris air show.
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“Previous production problems in Boeing will currently be very important to people, and relatively new boeing leadership must be visible in the coming days,” said Paul Charles, CEO of PC Agency, London’s luxury travel consultancy.
Boeing’s shares on Thursday closed 4.8% lower.
Maximum problems
Boeing was considered to be responsible for three major accidents that have been involved in 737 levels of the max max of the narrow body in recent years, including two fatal accidents. The incident in January 2024, when the door plug dropped from the new aircraft in the middle of the flight, damaged its reputation and led to the departure of the then CEO Dave Calhoun and the head of commercial aircraft and its advice.
Air India, which crashed in Ahmedabad, was older than ten years. He first flew at the end of 2013 and was delivered to Air India in January 2014. Since then it has accumulated more than 41,000 flights, of which 420 hours in 58 years in May and 165 hours in 21 flights in June, Cirium, analytical firms for air data, and flight tracking websites.
Before the accident managers of the airlines expressed more confidence in Boeing’s reflection in the vans and in the leadership of Ortberg after years of damage to the reputation for Planemaker. However, the public has not yet caught. Last month, a survey of Axios Harris 100 recognizable corporate brands, according to legend, Boeing to 88, as well as in 2024.
The 787 wide body had a strong safety record. They were grounded in 2013 due to battery problems, but no one was reported to be injured.
Boeing’s anxiety 737 Max Jets was grounded for years after two fatal accidents and faced years of control and delay in production.
“There could be increased control of production and quality procedures due to an accident. However, we do not feel at the moment that it will have a long -term impact on production,” said analyst Edward Jones Jeff Windau.
Shares Spirit Aerosystems, Key Supplier and GE Aerospace, which produces nozzle stream engines, also dropped by about 2%.
He also sold Boeing’s outstanding debt modestly after the accident.
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