I didn't defend Boeing, I defended the industry and its practices. Boeing needs to fix issues and the process I am defending is making them do that right now. I define panic as irrational fear. Irrational fear here is backed up by stats showing safety compared to industries with massively worse records than aviation that aren't experiencing nearly the reaction this one incident is having. Basically you have just thrown big words around and ignored the arguments presented. Present an argument and I will listen. The clear salient point both I and, I believe, the article are making is that aviation is safe stop obsessing to the detriment of aviation over every inevitable issue that happens. Bad things will happen when hundreds of millions of people move billions of miles every year. It is unfortunate but the best safety conscious industry in the world is handling it. The fact that 0 died in the US on major airlines for the last ? how many years now? shows the incredible safety record of the industry. Obsessing over a door when you don't even care that several people in your city likely died in car accidents last year is the definition of panic.