Originally Posted by
futurama
An interesting data point: as of yesterday Southwest found only two jets with cracked pickle forks. They have some of the oldest 737NGs (being the launch customer for the 737-700, many of which were slated to be retired this year) -- and presumably inspected their oldest aircraft first to comply with the AD's 7-day limit.
Depending upon how many were inspected, that's an interesting stat for two reasons - the airframes with the most likely number of high cycles seems pretty clean. As I understand from SW, the 700s mostly stayed with the blended winglets, more of the 800 series were converted to the split.
Even more curious since the Jet Airways being modified by Boeing (possibly for Prime) and the original culprits were 800s?