I guess it depends on if they have learned their lesson from the 787 that having bean counters in charge of the company is not the brightest of ideas if you want to produce well-engineered products. It would seem they have not yet learned that lesson.
PERHAPS if they moved the “Executives” back to Seattle from Chicago, they could be closer to the people that can actually DO SOMETHING about the problems.
Since when is it a good idea to move executives farther away from the problems–and the people that ultimately will have to SOLVE the problems?
The move to Chicago will be written up for decades as an example of BAD DECISIONS IN BUSINESS.
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Then they’d be further from St. Louis fighter aircraft manufacturing.
I do urge very small HQs, preferably located near a factory. (The Long Acres name south of Seattle might remind them that you have to do your homework to pick the horse to bet on. :-o)
Sam Walton kept HQ staff numbers very small, had a fleet of aircraft to fly to stores to check up on them. (HQ is in Bentonville Arkansa.)
“Uncommanded pitch event” - somehow seems familiar.
Except for businesses who try to do business in Seattle.
Get-home-itis again?
Proper internal reviews should have caught some of what FAA is saying.
Wait, the FAA says the 777x is “not ready” but approved Virgin Galactic for carrying passengers?
I think the FAA no longer is dealing in risk assessment nor safety.