WASHINGTON — Boeing CEO David Calhoun apologized to the families of victims of previous plane crashes involving the company’s planes, including the 737 Max, before being grilled by senators Tuesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal invited the families to the highly anticipated hearing, and many came holding posters of loved ones killed, including in the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 off Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 near Addis Ababa in 2019.
Before Calhoun began his opening statement, he turned and faced the families.
“I apologize for the grief we have caused,” he said. “We are focused on safety.”
Blumenthal, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, thanked the families for joining the hearing.
“The issues before us today have real human consequences [and] real Life and death results,” the senator said.
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