{"id":231484,"date":"2025-06-08T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-problem-737-max-engine-design\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T17:00:16","slug":"the-problem-boeing-ran-into-after-designing-the-737-max-for-bigger-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=231484","title":{"rendered":"The Problem Boeing Ran Into After Designing The 737 MAX For Bigger Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254988\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737<\/span><\/span> is the backbone of Boeing&#8217;s commercial aircraft business, with 737 orders alone accounting for approximately 75% of the company&#8217;s backlog of commercial orders. However, this year, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2040673\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/more-airbus-a320s-than-boeing-737s\/\" >the rival Airbus A320 family is overtaking the Boeing 737 in cumulative sales<\/a><\/span>. While the A320 has long outsold the Boeing 737, this was accelerated by the twin fatal <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"177620\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-737-max\/\"  >Boeing 737 MAX<\/a><\/span> crashes in 2018 and 2019. The root cause of the crashes was retrofitting larger engines onto an airframe that wasn&#8217;t designed for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest MAX issue is arguably a departure from engineering excellence to short-term profits at Boeing after the McDonnell Douglas acquisition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,422,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737","category-boeing-737-max"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231485,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231484\/revisions\/231485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}