This is media — hyperfocused on Boeing because of incidents that happen or come close to happening much more often than we normally notice. They’re like sharks sniffing for blood in the water. So suddenly every incident means Boeing is to blame.
Did the airplane that lost a wheel come from the factory with bolts missing (like the door plug airplane)? I think not. It was a maintenance problem.
And I doubt departing the end of the runway was a Boeing problem either.
I don’t like what has happened at Boeing. (I do not work in civilian aviation, but I have military experience with aviation, so I have followed the industry and closely studied mishaps for many years)
Apart from the DIE issues in designing and building airplanes, the problem which is just as big, or bigger, is people in the industry involved in flying airplanes, maintaining airplanes, routing airplanes, or administrating airports and airlines, have sacrificed competency for the sake of sex and/or race.
The industry is waiting for a huge crash to happen.
And it is going to happen.
When it does, it is less likely to be a serious design flaw, and more likely to be something that takes what would be a relatively remote or insignificant design flaw and through incompetence, ignorance, or laziness is going to turn it into something where planes collide in the air or crash into the ground.
Anyone who follows mishaps in aviation knows that a design flaw is usually not responsible for a major mishap. It is usually a chain of events, starting small, which cascade into a major catastrophic event. And human error is one of the largest components.
The risks from most design flaws are minimized by policies and procedures from maintenance to flight, and everything in between to compensate for those flaws.
I am a long time, pilot and aviation enthusiast who lives on an airport with our airplanes and hang gliders. Most of our neighbors are professional pilots or have some connection to Boeing.
For whatever reason our mainstream media always favors narratives which ultimately results in American industry shipping jobs overseas. And of course, a large percentage of the population has an innate fear of flying. So, despite airline travel being by far the statistically safest means form of transportation... air disaster stories are always a sure-fire way for media companies to attract viewers or readers.
Years ago, after visiting me at the fire station, my wife came home late after a plane had crashed near our airport. It was after hours, so the gate was closed. A gaggle of news crews were waiting in front of the gate hoping to get in. My wife and our other neighbors would not allow them into the airport. They were very upset about this... and our local media darlings were having a fit. My wife was shown on the news refusing them access. Every piece we saw portrayed private aviation as a very bad thing that put the public at risk. And letting them into the airport would not have changed things at all. They have their narrative, and nothing would have changed it.