The hearing comes as Boeing has been grappling with a full-blown safety crisis following a mid-air panel blowout
Clark made the comments to the Financial Times as he is reportedly preparing to send Emirates engineers to Boeing to oversee its 777 production lines
The Federal Aviation Administration in an October 12 letter ordered the planemaker to study the impact of pilot performance on a broader range of potential failures
Airbus customers to get jets in August included Gulf Air, which took its first A321neo, and Portuguese carrier Orbest, which received an initial A330-900 wide-body