Dave Calhoun will continue to lead Boeing through year-end, the company said.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will step down at the end of the year, the companyThe move comes amid fallout from a high-profile safety failure onboard an Alaska Airlines flight in January, when a door plug blew out of Boeing's 737 Max 9 aircraft while the plane was in flight."The eyes of the world are on us, and I know that we will come through this moment a better company," Calhoun.
Steve Mollenkopf, former CEO of chipmaker Qualcomm, will immediately take over as Boeing board chair and lead the search for a new chief executive, Boeing added. In 2019, Boeing 737 Max aircraft were grounded worldwide following a pair of crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed a combined 346 people. The aircraft were permitted to again take to the skies in 2021, following a two-year ban.
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