Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, January 3rd. Today on Forbes, biggest career crashes of

2024. A plummeting stock price, criminal charges, or simply strategic blunders can cause an

otherwise exemplary career to tumble. Our annual list of career crashes illustrates how even the mightiest can

fall. Here are some highlights from our career crash list of 2024. When Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun

testified in front of lawmakers in June over safety problems with the airplane maker's fixture

737 max, he started off by apologizing

to the families of those killed in Boeing airplane crashes, before detailing the safety

failures in its manufacturing process and admitting company whistleblowers were retaliated against.

The 68-year-old CEO had by then already announced he'd be stepping down by the end of the year,

but by July, a new CEO, Kelly Ortberg, was already in charge.

Calhoun, who started his career at Boeing as a director and rose to be non-executive chairman,

was brought in as CEO in 2020 to turn things around at Boeing, following two deadly crashes that killed 346 people.

But the company has continued to struggle with safety and manufacturing issues.

In January 2024, a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane door blew open mid-flight, sparking Senate hearings,

grounded flights, and a federal aviation

administration audit that found that Boeing failed to comply with quality control requirements.

A company whistleblower was found dead in March. By July, the company pled guilty to one charge

of defrauding the American government over safety issues in the 737 max, though the deal was rejected

by a Texas federal judge. Boeing's woes have continued. Last weekend, one of its 737-800 passenger jets

operated by South Korea's Jesuit air crashed as it was attempting to land. Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs,

a.k.a. P. Diddy career, crashed following a slew of sexual abuse and sex trafficking claims. Combs was first arrested in September after he was

federally charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to engage in

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