Senators grilled Boeing chief executive Dave Calhoun on Tuesday about the company’s safety failures, saying the aircraft maker has done too little to protect whistleblowers who have raised concerns about retaliation.
Boeing appears to have “fostered a culture that censors people who try to speak up”, said Senator Maggie Hassan, while Senator Richard Blumenthal highlighted that changes the company promised to make last month shared similarities with actions it said it would take in 2015, following a settlement with federal aviation regulators.
“This hearing is a moment of reckoning,” Blumenthal said. “It’s about a company, once an iconic company . . . that somehow lost its way.”