{"id":273780,"date":"2019-05-13T05:04:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=273780"},"modified":"2019-05-13T05:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:24:27","slug":"boeing-sends-737-max-to-brand-rehab-to-avoid-fate-of-ford-pinto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-sends-737-max-to-brand-rehab-to-avoid-fate-of-ford-pinto\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing sends 737 Max to brand rehab to avoid fate of Ford Pinto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co.\u2019s 737 Max is about to join the list of brands trying to come back from ignominy.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts are digging into decades-old safety scares for clues to the future of the jetliner &#8212; and Boeing\u2019s finances. There\u2019s the Chevrolet Corvair rollovers that launched Ralph Nader as a consumer advocate in the 1960s, gas-tank explosions that sank Ford Motor Co.\u2019s Pinto in the 1970s, and the Tylenol poisonings of 1982 that spurred tamper-proof packaging.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s little precedent for the tangle of safety, regulatory and financial issues buffeting a workhorse jet that\u2019s vital to sustaining the surge in global air travel. After two crashes of the aircraft model in five months and a grounding that\u2019s nearing the two-month mark, some nervous passengers are vowing to avoid the Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing Co.\u2019s 737 Max is about to join the list of brands trying to come back from ignominy. Analysts are digging into decades-old safety scares for clues to the future of the jetliner &#8212; and Boeing\u2019s finances. There\u2019s the Chevrolet Corvair rollovers that launched Ralph Nader as a consumer advocate in the 1960s, gas-tank explosions that sank Ford Motor Co.\u2019s Pinto in the 1970s, and the Tylenol poisonings of 1982 that spurred tamper-proof packaging. But there\u2019s little precedent for the tangle of safety, regulatory and financial issues buffeting a workhorse jet that\u2019s vital to sustaining the surge in global air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}