Dennis Muilenburg, president, chief executive and chairman of Boeing, said: "We are doing everything we can to understand the cause of the accidents in partnership with the investigators, deploy safety enhancements and help ensure this does not happen again."
Many corporates bear little resemblance to once robust selves.
Boeing today appears little related to the Boeing of old.
Boeing has been conspicuous by their silence.
Naturally the in house and external retained legal people advised silence.
No doubt numerous
PR people are working the phones and media to spin this.
All with an eye on the stock ticker.'
'Partnerships' were the way the new Boeing outsourced the 787.
Partnerships were the way Boeing 'diversified' the development and build costs.
Remember the roll out? The plywood doors?
Remember the battery fires? Route cause unknown. MIT scientists among many others involved in battery technology concerned long term risk not mitigated.
Business schools have pumped out MBA graduates all focused on the 'cost' and financial risk aversion.
When safety and profit compete, it is almost a sure bet that the former loses.
It is possible that 'partnerships' with this aircraft have compromised the design and certification integrity.
With the FAA extremely slow to respond, cut the 'partnership' line Mr Muilenburg and let the investigators investigate.
With the greatest of respect to the many hardworking employees and engineers this corporate is infected.
Mr Muilenburg, it could well have 'happened again'.
Don't worry though Dennis, your lobbyists are working the phones in Washington, you know the guys who used to work for the public service including the FAA.