[SoftTalker]

All airliners occasionally have problems with wheels and/or tires. And occasionally have cracked window glass. And occasionally have engine failures. And occasionally have pressurization problems, Read avherald.com for a few days and you'll see that it happens to Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, Bombardier, and others. And with the number of flights worldwide, some kind of problem serious enough to cause a return to the aiport or diverting to an alternate happens almost every day.

Boeing has some serious questions to answer about their engineering and QA processes. But attributing random normal problems to that just confuses the issue.

[cm2187]

Plus B757 stopped being manufactured in 2004 so whatever problem this is, is unrelated to recent boeing manufacturing problems.

[pavel_lishin]

Is a wheel coming off of the front of an airplane a "normal problem" on par with an engine failure or a cracked window glass?

[bombcar]

Various things related to it are common "enough" that you can find discussion around them - for example the Airbus sideways landing gear: https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/landing-with-nosewheels-at-90...

Of course, these are "normal problems" that shouldn't happen and need to be investigated, but it's not quite "the front fell off": https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

[mpreda]

And all airliners ocasionally have two complete-loss crashes a few months apart?

(346 people died in two similar crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings

[etskinner]

All that grandparent comment is saying is that this specific news story is a nothing burger, not that we should ignore other, bigger issues. In fact, they're saying that mentioning small issues like this is a red herring and a distraction. Presumably they agree that the recent Alaska Airlines door plug mishap and the total losses you mentioned are important.