(NewsNation) — Boeing Co. is facing intense scrutiny and customers are thinking twice about flying the jet after a series of recent headline-grabbing incidents, including a mid-air crash of a New Zealand-bound plane last week. He says he is.
At least 50 people were treated at the scene, mostly for minor injuries, and a further 13 were hospitalized. Earlier this year, a door panel was blown off the side of a Boeing plane during an Alaska Airlines flight, alarming travelers.
“Well, given the number of surgeries we're dealing with, most of the reported incidents are normal,” travel editor Peter Greenberg said on Sunday's “Morning in America.” Told. “If you look at just this month, there have been 131,000 departing flights on United Airlines, and of those, there may have been four non-life-threatening accidents.” — However, more are being reported now as we have become very sensitive about the flight of certain Boeing aircraft. ”
Still, Greenberg said that doesn't eliminate the need for more federal inspection and oversight, “which is the very problem that created this problem in the first place.”
“The FAA needs to get its act together,” Greenberg said. “We need to hire more independent investigators to do the job they have been doing since the agency was founded in 1935.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
