At another point in the conversation, he implied that the pilots from Indonesia and Ethiopia, “where pilots don’t have anywhere near the experience that they have here in the U.S.,” were part of the problem too. Asked whether he believed American pilots would have been able to handle a malfunction of the software, Calhoun asked to speak off the record. “Forget it,” he said, when the reporters refused. “You can guess the answer.” As for the larger message about Boeing’s own culture: “I see a couple of people who wrote horrible emails.”
