Walgreens closing nearly 40% of clinics Boeing CEO’s statement: ‘We have learned and are still learning’
On the anniversary of the first of two deadly crashes involving 737 Max jets, Boeing’s CEO will tell Congress that the aircraft company knows it made mistakes and is throwing everything into fixing the plane.
“We have learned and are still learning from these accidents,” Dennis Muilenburg said in comments prepared for delivery Tuesday to a Senate committee. “We know we made mistakes and got some things wrong. We own that, and we are fixing them.”
Muilenburg is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Committee, then again on Wednesday before the
House Transportation Committee. Boeing released his prepared statement Monday.
Chicago-based Boeing is being sued by families of some of the 346 people who died in the crashes of a Max off the coast of Indonesia on Oct. 29, 2018, and another in Ethiopia on March 10.
Rep. Peter DeFazio said he will ask Muilenburg why Boeing didn’t tell the FAA about changes during development of the Max that made the flight-control system called MCAS more powerful. DeFazio suggested that Boeing concealed the true power of MCAS to discourage regulators from examining it more closely.
Walgreens will shutter nearly 40% of the clinics in its stores as the Deerfield-based drugstore chain cuts costs and shifts to other businesses it believes will draw more people through its doors.
The company said Monday that it will close 150 Walgreens-run clinics by the end of the year, but it will keep open more than 200 that are run in partnership with health care providers. Drugstore chains started years ago adding small clinics that dole out flu shots and handle relatively minor health issues like sinus infections. But analysts say the chains have struggled to make money off the clinics.