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> Did the CEO believe his people were incompetent to develop and verify the software?

Did the CEO create the culture in which they could not despite being able to?

vmladenov 12 months ago [–]

IIUC the decisions that led to the 737 Max happened under the prior CEO Muilenburg. Calhoun is just the fall guy. He wasn’t even CEO when the crashes happened.

He should bear responsibility for the door plugs, though.

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