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An engine cover rips off a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, forcing an emergency landing
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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It's a thing until it becomes so frequent that it's just background noise, which is what happened with car crashes. I took specific action to make my next big trip safer, and from everything I could find the most effective way to do that was trading out the drive to the airport for a bus ride.
It's always been that frequent...
The 737-MAX issues are very high profile and represent an extremely bad issue at Boeing's core.
But these issues are nothing like that. They're constant background issues that you were ignoring before now, you'll just go back to ignoring them.
This is a maintenance issue with the airline, not a manufacturing issue. Big difference. A mechanic doing routine maintaine probably forgot to latch the cowling.
Definitely - that's why I'm saying this has always been a constant background level of fuckups.
Airplanes are so scrutinized and safe that this level of casual negligence rarely causes issues.