Boeing has spent years trying to overcome seemingly nonstop safety issues, legal proceedings and manufacturing disruptions impacting Boeing’s critical 737 MAX line, but the latest malfunction has once again suppressed the company’s share price and capped its output below 2018 levels. It has now cost an executive at the head of the MAX program, Ed Clark, his job. Clark was dismissed from his position nearly three years after taking over Boeing’s embattled Renton, Wash., plant in 2021. Renewed scrutiny of Boeing stems from a mid-air blowout of a panel aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 5. A door plug, meant to seal unused exits on certain flight configurations where they’re not in use, apparently fell off of an almost brand-new 737 MAX 9 jet in flight, leaving a gaping hole in the plane’s fuselage. This plane was manufactured in the Renton facility and, according to the results of an NTSB investigation, Boeing appears to have been responsible for the mis-installat