Southwest flew 'unsafe' airplanes?

[Flybywire44]

How many of these planes crashed? I'm sure this is more media fluff.

How often do they skew the details of aviation stories?

 

[freeflyer14]

How many of these planes crashed? I'm sure this is more media fluff.

How often do they skew the details of aviation stories?

That's how you base how dangerous something like this is? By how many crashed? It only takes one, ask anyone impacted by Alaska Airlines 261 about that.

 

[Jon Rivoli]

A missed inspection required by an AD would render said airplane "unairworthy", it is a big deal and the fines frequently run over $10,000 per operation. That's every time it takes off Ka-Ching. Unsafe is a relative term, unairworthy is a legal term. Don't give me any crap about milking a sick airplane into an mx base. You fly an airplane without a valid airworthyness release and you broke the law. If an inspector pencil whips an inspection he broke the law. No one knows what the deal is hear yet and politicians grandstanding won't help, but there will be an investigation. Inspection not complied with? Airplane flew? Deep doo doo. There are limits on the immunity from self disclosure and I'm pretty sure willful neglect would not be covered. Time will tell, but Southwest might be writing a big check.

 

[Hamburger]

a missed inspection doesn't necessarily mean it is "unsafe"

No, it just means "unairworthy" and "illegal".