“My son checked the make of the plane before we left for the airport recently to fly cross country - it was an air bus, so all good and we had a great flight.
Said if it was a Boeing, he wasn’t going.”
Your son reads too many headlines. There were two Crashes that were Boeing’s fault 6+ years ago, both involved foreign airlines assigning pilots who weren’t trained on the MAX. There are 45,000 flights a day in the US alone. The majority of those planes are Boeing and the “incidents” per month can be counted on 1 hand. Your son is more likely to die on the way to the airport to board an Airbus.
The American pilots had superior training, many came from the military.
However, things are changing so with the new pilots, I can't say their training is that much better than the foreign pilots.
Yeah, there’s no worry unless you’re the one sitting next to the hatch when it blows out because the slackers at the factory didn’t install the bolts and the inspectors, well - clearly there was no inspection.