After steering major deal, Spirit CEO Shanahan could be next Boeing boss

The complex three-way deal announced late Sunday night to split Spirit AeroSystems between Boeing and Airbus, returning to Boeing huge manufacturing facilities that it sold off two decades ago, was engineered by Spirit AeroSystems CEO Pat Shanahan. Just four months after Boeing announced its intention to reacquire most of this critical supplier, Shanahan secured agreement through personal negotiations with the senior leadership of the two greatest rivals in the aviation world. A former top Boeing executive and former acting Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump, appointed Spirit CEO late...