Opinion: Time to put Boeing’s engineers back in charge

Boeing’s ruthless profit-driven culture has to change before more people get hurt

What on Earth does Boeing think it’s playing at?

Here is a company that used to be venerated as one of the world’s great engineering firms, a titan of aviation that reshaped the jet age with the 707; gave short-haul its most reliable workhorse in the 737, far and away the most successful commercial aircraft of all time; and let’s not forget, created the most iconic passenger jet the world has ever seen, the 747, which was for good reason crowned the “Queen of the Skies”.