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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Julia Reinstein

Boeing CEO bizarrely calls Alaska Airlines plane door blowout a ‘quality escape’

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Days after part of an Alaska Airlines plane blew off mid-flight, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun blamed the incident on what he called a “quality escape.”

“We’re going to want to know what broke down in our gauntlet of inspections, what broke down in the original work, that allowed for that escape to happen,” Mr Calhoun told CNBC.

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