You’ll notice the referenced door blowout incident on the “newly new” aircraft differs from this new incident where I couldn’t find mention of the age. A failure like this could be due to poor maintenence on a decades old aircraft and no fault of Boeing. It’s the new media trend to pile onto Boeing now for every issue. Now Boeing deserves much of the hate they are currently getting. But it can muddy the waters and give them ammo to cry about unfair treatment if we blame them for issues they didn’t cause.
You’ll notice the referenced door blowout incident on the “newly new” aircraft differs from this new incident where I couldn’t find mention of the age. A failure like this could be due to poor maintenence on a decades old aircraft and no fault of Boeing. It’s the new media trend to pile onto Boeing now for every issue. Now Boeing deserves much of the hate they are currently getting. But it can muddy the waters and give them ammo to cry about unfair treatment if we blame them for issues they didn’t cause.
FTA:
“The plane is an older model of the Boeing 737 than the Max jets.”
The Max 9 was introduced in 2016, so older than that.
Did they stop making older models when they introduced the Max? IIRC they just stopped making 747s a short while ago.
They may have, Southwest is known for running an older fleet.