{"id":265091,"date":"2025-08-11T07:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-737-max-worlds-most-controversial-aircraft-built\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T21:01:17","slug":"boeing-737-max-inside-one-of-the-worlds-most-controversial-aircraft-ever-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=265091","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 737 MAX: Inside One Of The World\u2019s Most Controversial Aircraft Ever Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"177620\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737 MAX<\/span><\/span> has proven to be one of the most popular single-aisle jets today despite its chequered past. There have been over 1,900 MAX aircraft delivered since the narrowbody debuted in 2017, and only two of the program&#8217;s four variants have entered service thus far. However, the aircraft&#8217;s reputation remains questionable in many people&#8217;s eyes due to the two deadly crashes involving the type in October 2018 and March 2019, forcing the MAX&#8217;s grounding for a period of 20 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two tragedies in the space of five months grounded the 737 MAX for almost two years.<\/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":[396,398,718,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-max","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265091","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=265091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265092,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265091\/revisions\/265092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}