Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg assured President Trump on Tuesday that the planemaker’s new 737 MAX is safe, despite two crashes in the past six months and the chief executive’s observation on Twitter that jetliners are becoming too complex for pilots to fly.
The two spoke by phone after a morning tweet in which Trump said modern aircraft are rendered dangerous by increasing reliance on digital technology, Boeing confirmed. The Chicago-based company declined to provide details of the conversation beyond Muilenburg’s reiteration of the planemaker’s confidence in the reliability of the airliner — its best-selling model ever.
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