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Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ senior vice president of quality, Elizabeth Lund, will retire next month after a 33-year career at the aerospace giant that is concluding under the cloud of Alaska Airlines flight 1282, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Air Current.
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In a message sent this morning to BCA employees, division CEO Stephanie Pope said that Lund — who previously served as senior VP and general manager of airplane programs — already had plans to retire this year before she was asked in February to take over BCA quality. In that unforgiving role, she was charged with driving development of Boeing’s Safety & Quality Plan in the wake of the accident that saw a plug exit violently depart a newly built 737 Max 9 in passenger service on Jan. 5 due to Boeing’s failure to install four retaining bolts at the factory.
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