Jackharr
As someone said recently in this thread, unless there is some satisfactory explanation in the near future, the public's confidence in Boeing equipment and/or British Airways will be seriously eroded. Maybe little will happen until the share prices fall significantly and only then will the shareholders ask the real questions.
I doubt it. I really would not expect that to happen - and I am generally a pessimist where these matters are concerned!!
- No deaths.
- It was a 1st world airline with an extremely high safety record.
- The public often have zero idea what type of a/c they are on. Any wide body can automatically be dubbed a 'jumbo'.
- Boeing has, in the eyes of the public, a fine safety record. Did they lose any business over the 737 rudder problem?? In that series of accidents (some of which, IIRC, are not fully explained) many people died.
- Post crash, the TV carried reports from smiling pax saying 'I did not realise that we had crashed'.
That is not to say that some pax will be concerned but the stats of 777 operations over the past decade, make it clear that this is an unusual and rare event. To those that take an interest, that makes it even more worrying but, I suggest for most pax? Not a jot.