Pressure on Boeing grows as Buttigieg says the company needs to cooperate with investigations
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is turning up the heat on Boeing
With Boeing facing multiple government investigations, the company needs to make “a serious transformation” around its safety and manufacturing quality, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Monday.
The comments came one day after Buttigieg said the aircraft builder is under “enormous” scrutiny by his department since a panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max jetliner in midlfight.
Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into the Jan. 5 blowout on an Alaska Airlines jet. That followed the company's admission that it couldn't find records that the National Transportation Safety Board sought for work done on the panel at a Boeing factory.
The Federal Aviation Administration, part of Buttigieg's department, is also investigating Boeing.
