Mother of Boeing Plane Crash Victim Rips ‘Psychopath’ CEO on CNN: ‘Are You Sorry for the Bombs Boeing Produced That Kill Innocent Kids?’
Nadia Milleron, whose daughter was killed in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX plane crash, tore into Boeing CEO David Calhoun on CNN, Tuesday after he issued an apology to victims of the company’s problematic aircraft.
After Calhoun issued an apology to the families of the 346 victims who have died in 737 MAX accidents since the plane was introduced in 2017, Milleron – whose daughter Samya Stumo died along with all other passengers on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 – told CNN host Abby Phillip, “It wasn’t a real apology. What he was doing is he doesn’t want us to know the details of how it happened.”
Claiming that the 737 MAX crashed due to “production defects, not just through faulty design,” Milleron continued:
He doesn’t want people to know that. He doesn’t want people to know that they cut corners on production, they cut out inspectors, and as a result, there are all these problems in these planes. The planes that were produced then, the planes that are being produced now, they all have production defects and these are showing up in real problems that pilots are facing, and two of those problems caused these huge crashes, and an another of those problems caused the Alaska Air blowout. So he’s covering up by saying, “Yes, we’re very sorry, we’re very sorry,” and he doesn’t want to say what they’re sorry for and who was responsible and who made the decisions. But only through that can we actually correct the problems.
Milleron told Phillip that during Calhoun’s hearing in front of the Senate on Tuesday, “He looked at me in the eye and he said, ‘I am sorry,’ and I said, ‘You are sorry? Are you sorry for the bombs Boeing produced that kill innocent kids in Rafah? Are you sorry for that too?'”
“Like how can he sleep?” she questioned. “This person is a psychopath. We can not have people running these companies that do not care about human life. We have to have responsible people running these companies.”
During the interview, Milleron also called for Calhoun and other Boeing executives to be prosecuted, noting that Boeing whistleblower John Barnett “supposedly committed suicide after seven years of harassment by Boeing and the supervisors around his whistleblowing” on safety issues at the company.
Watch above via CNN.
