“We are over-reporting the aircraft operational stories.” Fully agree. I ran across this statistical research in Executive Flight magazine
“What Plane Has Been Involved in the Most Crashes?
Looking at just the numbers, the Boeing 737 has had 149 accidents and 4,360 fatalities.
The Boeing 747 has been involved in 49 accidents and 3,713 fatalities, and the Airbus A300 has been involved in 33 accidents with 1,416 fatalities.
However, as over 10,000 Boeing 737s have been produced compared to 1,569 Boeing 747s and 561 Airbus A300s, this explains why the 737 has been involved in the highest number of mechanical incidents, plane crashes and deaths.
When looking at the data in this way, one can argue that the Boeing 737 is one of the safer commercial airliners, despite being the plane that has crashed most often in the history of commercial aviation”... while the Airbus 300, which has had the least number of incidents, has the highest density of incidents considering there have been 18 times as many Boeing 737s manufactured as there have been Airbus 300s”
You need to differentiate between the older 737-XXX and the 737-Max lines, they’re fundamentally dissimilar. The older 737 is a very good aircraft, and astonishingly reliable. The -Max not so much.