FlightGlobal: Analysts fault Boeing guilty fraud plea for lack of leadership change
John Goglia is a featured expert in the article, “Analysts fault Boeing guilty fraud plea for lack of leadership change.”
Boeing intends to plead guilty to criminal charges that it defrauded the Federal Aviation Administration under a deal that would see it invest nearly half a billion dollars in quality improvements and be subject to three years of compliance monitoring.
Notably, however, the plea deal reached with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) imposes on Boeing what observers describe as an insignificant fine. It also fails to mandate that the airframer undertake the type of broad leadership shake-up viewed by some experts as necessary to fix its problems.
“I think this actually worked out better for the travelling public than people realise,” says aviation safety consultant and former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member John Goglia. “Now, they have a dollar value that they have to invest in the operation, and they have a panel of overseers to make sure they follow through.”
What would have made the plea deal more effective? “Replacement of the whole senior management,” Goglia adds.
