Head of Boeing’s 737 Max program leaves company after Alaska Air door blowout

Boeing said the head of its 737 Max program is leaving as it continues to grapple with fallout over the midair door blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight last month.

Ed Clark, who led Boeing’s troubled department that also oversees the production of its embattled Max 9 model, is leaving immediately, Stan Deal, the chief executive of the commercial airplanes unit, said in a Wednesday memo to employees obtained by The Post.

According to his LinkedIn, Clark’s exit caps off a nearly 15-year stint at the Seattle-based firm.

He was promoted to take over the Max program in 2021, according to The New York Times, when the company was accelerating production following two 737 Max 9 crashes — in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in March in 2019 — that killed a combined 346 people.

Those crashes resulted in a temporary global grounding of 737 Max jets and sparked a firestorm of questions about Boeing’s safety procedures.

Clark’s departure was part of a larger leadership overhaul: Deal also told staffers on Wednesday that Elizabeth Lund would move from her post as senior vice president of airplane programs to “the new position of senior vice president for BCA Quality, where she will lead our quality control and quality assurance efforts.”