Boeing CEO’s message treads a careful line

Close call: National Transportation Safety Board investigator John Lovell examines the fuselage of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282. No one was injured in the incident last week. — AP

BOEING chief executive officer Dave Calhoun got emotional at an all-hands meeting as he described the hole blown into the side of one of his company’s planes.

I admit to being sceptical when I first read about his public display of feelings.