Meet Nadia Milleron: Her Daughter Was Killed in 2019 Boeing Crash, Now She's Running for Congress
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Published 2024-06-20
Boeing CEO David Calhoun appeared before a Senate committee on Tuesday to face questions about the aerospace giant's safety record, just hours after the release of a damning report on Boeing's business practices. Released by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the report found that the company lost track of hundreds of substandard aircraft parts, eliminated quality inspectors and put manufacturing workers in charge of signing off on their own work. We speak with Nadia Milleron, an aviation safety advocate, whose daughter Samya Stumo was killed on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2019 when a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet crashed due to the plane's malfunctioning software that put the plane into a nosedive. She attended Tuesday's hearing and is also running for Congress in Massachusetts. "Why is Dave Calhoun paid $32 million? He's paid that money to cut costs. That's what he's good at. He's not good at production. He's not an engineer. He's paid to strip-mine the company," says Milleron, who signed a letter along with other families of Boeing crash victims calling on the Justice Department to consider criminal prosecutions against company leadership. "They need to clean house."
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All Comments (21)
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Power to Nadia is Power to the People! A perfect candidate and advocate!
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Get Nadia in Congress❤
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That’s right, Nadia. Thanks for being a voice of advocacy for peace and the dismantling of the military industrial complex. 🙏🏽
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The world already knows how they’re responding not one but two dead whistleblower.
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The very best to Nadia in her race to the Congress. The moment Calhoun began his little "apology" routine it made my skin crawl it was so obviously fake. It gives you a little insight into the characters of these people: utterly divorced from real people. His experience of life must be a very strange one. This is why the world needs people like you, Nadia. Thank you.
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If it's Boeing I ain't going
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He just cares about his 30 million a year
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Also worth mention: Boeing's space capsule continues to have potentially catastrophic design and manufacturing defects after years of delay. Boeing has substituted financial management for good engineering; a case of capitalism against reason.
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I will support Nadia, I agree with her on everything she said!!
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(Private) business runs America dear, not the government.
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We need about 400 of Ms. Milleron in Congress.
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Excellent reporting. Nadia Milleron is prepared to make a stand about funding local economic priorities and protest at the obscenity of billions spent on weapons of death and destruction .
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Boeing intentionally watched people die in 737Max and ignored it. No criminal charges.
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Iam will to bet absolutely nothing will happen to these people just like everything else remember absolutely nothing. For these criminals sicking !!!!!!!!!!
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My grandfather worked for Boeing in the 50's when it was respected and a job employees took great pride in. Now I wouldnt step foot on a Boeing plane. And we critize China???!!!
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Sorry for her loss
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He doesn’t mean an ounce of that apology He cares about profit And that’s it
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An apology? Wtf am I hearing?! Where is the financial compensation to these families?! And criminal charges and imprisonment to those in charge. This is pure madness.
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This was a jaw-dropping interview! Nadia is an outstanding candidate & humanitarian. She knows about Boeing's years of malfeasance & deception. Best of luck to her. 👆 💯 👏 ❎
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Boeings CEO should be on trial for the murder of all his victims . I would not accept his apology only his conviction for the crimes his company committed
