New incidents involving Boeing aircraft on United and LATAM have everyone wondering what’s going on.
We ’ve already establish that fly is a mountain dependable than most people feel that it is — a Modern report from the International Air Transportation Association showed that 2023 was one of thesafest years for flyingin history . But that has n’t block people fromchanging the way they traveldue toanxiety - inducing aeroplane storiesthat have made headline late . The newspaper headline have been so acute lately that a new survey uncover that four in 10 Americans are moreafraid of flyingdue to recent air hose guard incident . For Gen Z that number is even higher , with 49 % of Gen Z respondents to the view describe reverence of fly in 2024 .
At the top of the year , Alaska Airlines ' fuselage blowoutseemed to be the biggest problem — allBoeing 737 Max 9 planes were groundedwhile a Union investigation was conducted , and a top executive at Boeing left the company shortly thereafter — but the first weeks of March are producing antecedently undreamed of plane repulsion stories . Let ’s get into them :
An unfortunate but common thread between all of these incidents ? All were Boeing aircraft — problems seem to keep stack up for the manufacturer . In carnal knowledge to the January Alaska Airlines incident , the Department of Justice just announced it is open up acriminal investigation . This week , the company ’s stock plump by 4.4 % in a exclusive daylight , the biggest such cliff since January 25 .
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These incident make the fear report by the above view , which polled 1,000 Americans and was commissioned by JW Surety Bonds , feel at least more or less justified . This is particularly the fount given that the results of the poll were published on March 7 , mean that view participants responded before the latest terrifying incidents occurred . respondent were also overpoweringly tuned into the investigations that are being bear by the Federal Aviation Administration and the DOJ—59 % enunciate they are interested about the investigation ’s result .
Here are more results from the survey :
Courtesy of JW Surety Bonds
