Boeing picks a retired admiral to lead a team that will review safety in manufacturing planes
Boeing is naming a retired Navy admiral to advise the company of quality-control matters
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 program for eight years. He is chairman of shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries.
The retired admiral's appointment was announced a day after the company said it would increase quality inspections on its Boeing 737 Max 9 planes following an accident on an Alaska Airlines jet. A plug used to fill a spot for an emergency exit blew out while the plane flew over Oregon on Jan. 5.
