Boeing picks retired admiral to lead team for safety review of planes
Boeing named a retired Navy admiral as a special adviser on matters including quality of work done at suppliers as the aircraft maker responds to a midflight blowout aboard one of its planes this month.
Boeing CEO David Calhoun said he asked Kirkland Donald to a team that will make recommendations to improve oversight of quality in the company’s factories and those of its suppliers.
Before retiring from the military, Donald was the director of the Navy’s nuclear-propulsion programme for eight years. He is chairman of shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries.
