JT610

Another Boeing has crashed killing everyone on board. Again, it was a new aircraft. Boeing have long had a problem with quality control which regulators have shrugged off or allowed jerry-rigged solutions to be implemented. Why are they allowed to get away with it? Has the airline industry not learned the lessons of the Ford Pinto?

News is breaking as we write of the loss of flight JT610, a Boeing 737 Max 8, the Seattle company's latest variant of its most popular aircraft. The aircraft operated by Lion Air, which has one of the newest fleets of aircraft in the industry, left Jakarta a short while ago and disappeared over the sea en route to Pangkal Pinang in the Bangka Belitung Islands.