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Publisher
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EDITOR-in-CHIEF
Geoffrey Thomas
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Editor
Jay Menon
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777x at Dubai Air Show
Managing Editor
Arun Sivasankaran
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Boeing Needs an Engineering Focus
Technology Editor
Atul Chandra
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to Fly Out of Severe Turbulence
South East Asia Correspondent
Yulian Ardiansyah
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Art Director By Geoffrey Thomas
Sudheesh Kularmunda
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Web Director
Elmer Valencia
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ate in the 1990s, so the Critics of Boeing today argue oversight.
story goes, Phil Condit, that profits have been put in front
Director of Sales
Akshay Satyamurthy
L Boeing’s Chair and CEO, of safety and speed of produc-
akshay.satyamurthy@gbp.com.sg
was briefing Wall Street heavy- tion over safety. Combined with the often-relent-
less media scrutiny of all things
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weights about a new series of Boeing, the time had come for a
Boeing 747 models. Their reaction was In the January/
so hostile and personal that radical shakeup – deserved or
February issue of not.
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on radically new 747 models One Incident Too Far”
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a bet the company exercise with And so, it was with the follow up United’s Scott Kirby, called for
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¤ £ profits flowing, if it sells, 15 years NTSB and FAA audits showing a meeting of the board without
later and that just doesn’t sit well apparent lapses in the pro- David Calhoun, the time had run
with the Wall Street. duction system and the safety out.
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