A Boeing 737-800 passenger jet crash-landed in South Korea on December 29, 2024, prompting an investigation into the cause of the incident. Aviation experts emphasized that the crash should not be linked to the previous safety concerns surrounding Boeing's 737 Max aircraft.
South Korea n soldiers check near the wreckage of a passenger plane at Muan International Airport on Dec. 29 in Muan-gun, South Korea . 2024 was already a dispiriting year for Boeing , the American aviation giant. But when one of the company’s jets crash-landed in South Korea on Sunday, the cause of the crash remains under investigation, and aviation experts were quick to distinguish Sunday’s incident from the company’s earlier safety problems.
Alan Price, a former chief pilot at Delta Air Lines who is now a consultant, said it would be inappropriate to link the incident Sunday to two fatal crashes involving Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jetliner in 2018 and 2019. In January this year, a door plug blew off a 737 Max while it was in flight, raising more questions about the plane. The Boeing 737-800 that crash-landed in Korea, Price noted, is “a very proven airplane. “It’s different from the Max … It’s a very safe airplane.’’ For decades, Boeing has maintained a role as one of the giants of American manufacturing. But the past year’s repeated troubles have been damaging. The company’s stock price is down more than 30% in 2024. The company’s reputation for safety was especially tarnished by the 737 Max crashes, which occurred off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019 and left a combined 346 people dead. In the five years since then, Boeing has lost more than $23 billion. And it has fallen behind its European rival, Airbus, in selling and delivering new planes. Last fall, 33,000 Boeing machinists went on strike, crippling the production of the 737 Max, the company’s bestseller, the 777 airliner and 767 cargo plane. The walkout lasted seven weeks, until members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers agreed to an offer that included 38% pay raises over four years. In January, a door plug blew off a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines fligh
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