Boeing crisis is a threat to the whole aviation industry [Video]

The turmoil at the top of Boeing this week underscores the extent to which the aircraft manufacturer’s quality control issues have the potential to destabilise the entire commercial aviation industry.

This week Boeing’s chairman said he wouldn’t stand for re-election at Boeing’s upcoming annual meeting, its chief executive said he would depart at the end of the year and the head of the division that makes its commercial jetliners retired with immediate effect.

While the CEO Dave Calhoun, a former chairman who took on the CEO role after the 2018 and 2019 crashes of Boeing Max 8 aircraft that claimed nearly 350 lives, said he would hang around until the end of the year, there’s already pressure from the company’s airline customers for more urgent …