Meet Nadia Milleron: Her Daughter Was Killed in 2019 Boeing Crash, Now She's Running for Congress

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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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