Boeing to detail quality, training improvements in FAA meeting, sources say

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Boeing's outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun and other senior company officials will detail the planemaker's quality, training and other improvements during meetings...

WASHINGTON - Boeing's outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun and other senior company officials will detail the planemaker's quality, training and other improvements during meetings with U.S. aviation regulators on Thursday, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.

Boeing confirmed a meeting would take place on Thursday, but declined to provide further details. The FAA said Whitaker would take part in a meeting with Boeing. Boeing said this month it has added new training material for manufacturing and quality roles averaging about 20 to 50 more training hours per employee, while more than 7,000 new tools and equipment have been provided for commercial airplane work."We anticipate the FAA will take whatever time is necessary to review that plan and hold us accountable," Calhoun said at Boeing's annual meeting on May 17. "This is more of a beginning than it is an end.

Boeing denied it has breached the deal. The Justice Department directed Boeing to respond by June 13 and intends to decide whether to prosecute Boeing by July 7.An American Airlines plane which had begun its takeoff for Boston's Logan International Airport was abruptly ordered to abort as air traffic controllers realized that another plane was landing on a cross-runway.

 

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