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Outgoing Boeing CEO David Calhoun apologized Tuesday to the hundreds of families who lost loved ones in crashes of the company’s 737 MAX jets — then faced scathing rebukes from senators who accused the company of placing profits over lives.
“I apologize for the grief that we have caused,” Calhoun said, standing and facing a roomful of victims’ relatives who packed a Capitol Hill hearing room, many of them holding posters with names and images of those who had died. “And I want you to know we are totally committed in their memory to work and focus on safety for as long as we are employed by Boeing.”
A chorus of voices, cracking and trembling, were heard shouting: “We want to know how they died” and “How could you, Boeing, and the CEO, let that happen.”