It's a 737-800(NG) delivered in 2015.
Clearly this isn’t OK and you can’t just have parts of your plane falling off. But there’s a difference between the engine and the engine covering, right?
I like the Reuters headline better.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/what-do-y...
I also like that it provides some context for what sort of event this is.
> The Seattle Times reported in 2022, opens new tab that dozens of similar accidents have happened in the past three decades on 737s and Airbus A320s but none resulted in injuries. The paper said almost every cowling incident had been traced to maintenance errors tied to a fan cowl door latching failure missed during preflight checks
I think nobody in their right mind could say that Boeing is a healthy company. But it seems like the Independent has jumped to conclusions. From their article.
> The incident is the latest in a string of issues to plague Boeing.
This is plainly not the case, this jet was manufactured before the string of issues.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39967474
The issue here is that there's a narrative about Boeing, and so a different readership response from news consumers when things happen to Boeing planes.
People like to point out that Boeing deserves this, which, sure. But the last story like this, about a sudden altitude drop in a flight over South America that injured 737 passengers, turned out 2 days later to have nothing at all to do with Boeing (a flight attendant bumped into a pilot who hit the stick).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boe...
"They hire these people off the street, dude ... fucking flipping burgers for a living, making sandwiches at Subway," one mechanic marveled of his colleagues; another regaled the narrator with tales of co-workers who came to work high on "coke and painkillers and weed" because no one had ever had a urine test. Asked if they would fly the 787 Dreamliner; just five of 15 answered yes, and even the positive responses did Boeing no favors: "I probably would, but I have kind of a death wish, too."
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-2...