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Right, but that's the game you play when you are an aircraft builder. If your record is spotless, people will presume issues with your products are not your fault. If your reputation dips, you get a feedback loop of shit. It's a pretty simple idea that American industry used to understand before they let MBAs take control.

This applies to many things in society, and is generally the entire social construct of "reputation." It's why politicians speak carefully and don't "say it like it is." It's why you don't talk shit about your coworkers. Etc. I feel like a huge portion of our society has completely lost touch with this idea of actions and character having long term consequences.

Yes I believe the current story is "the match made in heaven, Boeing and united, resulted in shit maintenance of a weakly QCed product. Thus, united was running a poor QC program on top of a profitmaxxed airframe. The bill is coming due on all that fuckery".

Basically, I’d assume this to be more of a maintenance issue rather than an actual Boeing issue.

Rather than think this is completely related, shouldn't it instead raise concerns about Boeings maintenance procedures? Extrapolating on their exposed carelessness during engineering and production i don't see it as much of a stretch to say they aren't maintaining their planes properly either.

I'm thinking twice before i fly boeing, period.

As you say, if boeing is getting away with shit maintenance then maybe all companies are and like someone above said, i shouldn't fly at all.

I believe I heard somewhere this was started by a bird strike.

And not to defend Boeing, but they don't make the engines. The engine is a CFM56 made by CFM International. The same engines are used on some Airbus a320s, Airbus a340s, and McDonald Douglas DC-8's

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFM_International_CFM56

Fair?

Boeing killed a mf'er.

We're past fair.

A quick lookup of the planes identifier SW3695 does indicate it is registered to a Boeing 737-800 (twin-jet) (B738).

I was about to say that 787s have electronically dimming windows, not the "slider blinds", so it couldn't possibly be a 787.
But also what you said.

They forgot the durable outer casing to prevent fall-apart.

Overall incidents this year are lower than the last couple of years, across all of aviation. I can't find much up to date info on Boeing specifically, but as of 2022 accidents were still roughly going down.

The last fatal plane crash of a US commercial aircraft was 15 years ago. Caused by pilot error, not mechanical failure.

Well there were some high profile problems with the latest iteration of the 737, problems that are actually Boeing's fault and should be their responsibility to fix.

After that though, any problem with any Boeing aircraft becomes juice news-cycle bait, even if the root of the problem was actually, hypothetically, that Southwest Airlines is cheap as fuck and their underfunded under-fucks-given maintenance crew fucked something up and didn't properly secure an engine cover. All the news outlets will care about was "Problem with another Boeing plane!"

Sure but an engine cover falling off is hardly Boeing's fault, that's a maintenance problem. The thing is a lot of these reported failures are maintenance issues, sure Boeing has their problems absolutely, but they also make the most common type of aircraft in the world. Inevitably there are going to be problems and most of those problems will be with the most common aircraft, because, by definition, there are more of them than any other type.

They've hired Matt Stone and Trey Parker to do an apology video.

A pattern? That's like business 101.