Boeing has been here before. In the 1960s, four new Boeing 727 jets crashed within a four-month period:
The press blamed the planes, and many passengers were afraid to fly on them. The jet was supposed to set the company on a path to success, because it was the type of transport that airlines had been demanding. But if panic persisted and airlines were unwilling to buy it, the future of Boeing would be in jeopardy.That could describe Boeing's current crisis. A pair of fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets led to the grounding of all 371 of the jets worldwide.
One of the planes bound for O'Hare Airport in Chicago crashed into Lake Michigan miles away."The headlines in the papers called it the 'Deadly 727.' There were a lot of calls for grounding it," said Bill Waldock, professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and head of the school's crash lab."You had travel agents booking passengers away from the airplane. It could have killed the airplane.
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