A don't know the man, but i can also add that after the merger, he also made some questionable decisions where they were going to make an airplane called the a soni cruiser. And probably that was a prudent move, given what happened with nine 11. But he killed that a. He also moved the headquarters of the company out of seattle, the home of this operation for decades, to chicago and more of a neutral location. I mean, like, ancially, i don't think it made that much sense. It might have made some sense from a diversification standpoint, because it's sort of a cushion in case there's a down turn in the commercial aviation business
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In 2019, Airbus surpassed for the first time Boeing as the largest aerospace company in the world, as two crashes of Boeing’s 737-Max airplane forced a grounding of the fleet and a halt in sales, eventually costing it $20 billion in associated fines and delays. While Boeing maintains a relatively strong overall safety record as measured by crashes per million departures, the production problems with the 787 Dreamliner in the mid 2010s and the recent 737 debacle has cast some doubt as to the management and engineering practices at the century-old American icon of industry. Tonight we delve into the roots of what made the company as successful as it was, as well as some of the key events that arguably led to its current troubles that date back well into the 1990s and beyond.
