Dave Calhoun seeks to ease friction with regulators as 737 MAX grounding persists
When Dave Calhoun called the head of the FAA Monday, the incoming Boeing CE purposely left other executives off the line. That self-confident but personal management style, honed over nearly 3 decades in various industries, will be one strategy Calhoun uses to try to mend the plane maker’s tattered relations with regulators, according to people who know him. The most immediate challenge confronting Calhoun is persuading FAA policy makers that Boeing will be more reliable and cooperative in providing data to verify flight-control fixes for the grounded 737 MAX fleet. That would mean abandoning his predecessor Dennis Muilenburg’s prodding of the agency over many months to accelerate vetting of the proposed software fix. <br/>
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Dave Calhoun seeks to ease friction with regulators as 737 MAX grounding persists
When Dave Calhoun called the head of the FAA Monday, the incoming Boeing CE purposely left other executives off the line. That self-confident but personal management style, honed over nearly 3 decades in various industries, will be one strategy Calhoun uses to try to mend the plane maker’s tattered relations with regulators, according to people who know him. The most immediate challenge confronting Calhoun is persuading FAA policy makers that Boeing will be more reliable and cooperative in providing data to verify flight-control fixes for the grounded 737 MAX fleet. That would mean abandoning his predecessor Dennis Muilenburg’s prodding of the agency over many months to accelerate vetting of the proposed software fix. <br/>
