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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun assured investors on Wednesday that he has a successor lined up - and they are from inside the crisis-hit airline maker. Calhoun will stand down at the end of the year with a $24 million exit package - and Wall Street is waiting to see who will get 'the most daunting management task ever.' 'I have an internal candidate that I think the world of,' he said. 'I do not expect that to happen in the next month or two. So let's all be clear about that.' 

At least 54 partiers were arrested after this year's Orange Crush event on Tybee Island, where 6,000 people gathered on the beach on Saturday. Officers also issued 116 citations and recovered three stolen firearms and a stolen vehicle. At this year's bash, a fight broke out on the beach's boardwalk (pictured), during which some women exchanged vicious blows with one another in front of a crowd of onlookers. There was also a large quantity of litter left on the beach, which was picked up by volunteers (right) and lifeguards.

Volunteers and Tybee Island lifeguards gathered on the beach Sunday morning to pick up the trash left behind by the wild Orange Crush event. The massive clean-up effort lasted more than two days, and the volunteers were confronted with an extensive amount of trash. The mayor of Tybee Island said that the event likely inflicted more than $220k of costs on the community. A video uploaded to TikTok documented the vast amount of trash that had been strewn along Tybee Island's beach- Georgia's largest public beach - during the annual Spring Break event

David Calhoun, the outgoing CEO of Boeing, as well as other executives, helped themselves to the company's private jets for $500,000-worth of personal travel. Their flights had been previously recorded as for business travel. The updated figures stretch back two years and show an increase in personal travel for Calhoun by $142,000. Pictured: a jet resembling the ones used by the executives, although the actual model of the plane is not yet known; David Calhoun, the outgoing CEO of Boeing, an aircraft-manufacturing giant that has weathered its fair share of negative press.

Following the debating Alaska Airlines crash, a group of airline CEOs has requested a sit-down meeting with Boeing as soon as next week to address questions. Boeing has decided to send Chairman Larry Kellner and other board members, but CEO David Calhoun is unlikely to attend.

After circling the Caribbean island four times, a Boeing-made Delta Airlines flight heading for Atlanta was forced to turn back and make an emergency landing. According to a spokesperson for the airline, there were 168 passengers on board, in comparison to four flight attendants and two pilots. The passengers were forced to stay an extra night in Aruba before being flown out on Wednesday. The aircraft in question was a Boeing 737 900.

Since it will only receive 40 of the 57 approved Boeing 737 MAX 8200 planes (pictured), Ryanair says it will be forced to make'minor schedule updates' before the end of June. Ryanair's new summer schedule is based on a minimum of 50 passengers. Schedule cuts have already been implemented at some of the airline's 'higher cost airports', including Dublin, Milan Malpensa, Warsaw Modlin, and four Portuguese airports, according to the airline. Michael O'Leary (top left), Ryanair's group chief executive, forecast that Ryanair's ticket prices would increase to 10% this summer relative to the same time last year.

Shareholders have chastised Boeing for prioritizing profit over safety and misleading customers about the company's commitment to building safe aircraft, according to a mid-air cabin panel on an Alaskan Airlines 737 MAX 9 in January. Boeing spent more than four years assuaging investors that it was 'laser-focused' on safety and not sacrifice profit for profit, according to the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday. Boeing's statements were inaccurate and misleading, according to shareholders, who mistook the word 'poor quality control' on its assembly line and caused the stock price to rise.

Boeing is attempting to attract employees back to the office with happy hours and even visits from alpacas, but low-level employees believe executives should also follow suit. In recent years, CEO David Calhoun has taken over 400 private jet trips from his home and is seldom seen in the Virginia headquarters, who prefers to work remotely. The company's CFO is also rarely seen at the office despite Boeing recently opening a small office in Connecticut just five minutes away from home