Boeing CEO, other executives stepping down amid safety concerns

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This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. A panel used to plug an area reserved for an exit door on the Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliner blew out Jan. 5, shortly after the flight took off from Portland, forcing the plane to return to Portland International Airport. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

(NBC) – Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of 2024 in part of a broad management shakeup for the embattled aerospace giant.

Chairman of the board Larry Kellner and Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing commercial airplanes, are leaving the company, too.

The departures come as airlines and regulators have been increasing calls for major changes at the company after a host of quality and manufacturing flaws on Boeing planes.

Scrutiny intensified after a Jan. 5 accident, when a door plug blew out of a nearly new Boeing 737 max 9, minutes into an Alaska Airlines flight.

Calhoun for months has promised investors, airline customers and the general public that Boeing will get its myriad quality struggles under control.

He was appointed to the top job in late 2019 and took the helm at Boeing in early 2020 after the company ousted its previous chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, for his handling of the aftermath of two deadly 737 Max crashes.

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