is there anything wrong with the Boeing 737-800??

[indiapapa]

Is something wrong with this aircraft?

May 2007 Kenya airways lost a 738 shortly after airborne, out of Douala Cameroon. Witnesses reported "a ball of fire in the sky"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

August 2007 a 738 from China airlines caught fire shortly after landing and blew up in few seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

January 2010 Ethiopian Airlines 737-800; Flight 409; near Beirut, Lebanon, blew up in the air right after Take off!!!!!!!!!!

Personally i have big doubts that the weather has anything to do with this:=.

[Mad (Flt) Scientist]

Is something wrong with this aircraft?

Not that anyone here is likely to have special knowledge of, and if they were somehow privy to that knowledge I'd not expect them to share.

May 2007 Kenya airways lost a 738 shortly after airborne, out of Douala Cameroon. Witnesses reported "a ball of fire in the sky"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Witnesses invariably report a "ball of flames" or "explosion" after every air accident that had witnesses. The accident report appears to be rather late in being released for this accident. (The NTSB factual report is just a very limited summary right now.)

August 2007 a 738 from China airlines caught fire shortly after landing and blew up in few seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This incident is not deserving of so many exclamations points I feel, given that no loss of life occurred. The cause is also identified and FAA EADs and appropriate action has been taken to mitigate the risk. Since this was on-ground I see no reason to consider it at all like the other two accidents.

January 2010 Ethiopian Airlines 737-800; Flight 409; near Beirut, Lebanon, blew up in the air right after Take off!!!!!!!!!!
See remark above about "blew up". Since this only happened last month I'd not expect an identified cause at this point.

Personally i have big doubts that the weather has anything to do with this:=.
Well, since the China Airlines event is demonstrated to be due to a mechanical problem, that's a pretty easy call to make for all three together. The as-yet-incomplete investigations could yet be weather (or any other cause, for that matter).

[411A]

No, nothing especially wrong with the latest generation of B737 aircraft, they do the job to nearly everyones satisfaction, except...
if you have flown one specific type before, and relied on its automatic approach/land mode of operation extensively, and then come to realise that, on re-qualification on this older type, after having flown the B737-800 for some years, that the later Boeing rehashed design simply cannot measure up to older 'technology'.
That 'older' type of course...is the Lockheed TriStar.:)

Or, so I'm told anyway, by those whom have flown both types extensively.

[plumponpies]

Nothing wrong with the 737 full stop!
The inflight accidents you refer to were proved to be fully functioning servicable aeroplanes. The most recent (Ethiopian) yet to be reported. My money is on it being a good aeroplane too.
The China Airlines was a technical/ maintenance error and since then Boeing issued a directive to prevent it occuring again.
I fly the classic and NG and really find them to be robust and very user friendly. Its usually the pilot that is the weakest link!!:}

[jetjockeyusa]

I flew the B738 and the real only problem which is not that big of a problem and you will learn it fast in the sim is when you take off to do it smoothly not to tailstrike the crap out of your airplane. That's it :) I flew them 2 straight years, the 737 and 738 (700 and 800) and the only problem I ever had was after retracting flaps on a go-around, they stayed at 15 and wouldn't go up any further, so we did a flaps 15 landing, also no problems. That's about it.

[welliewanger]

I suppose you're asking "How come there are so many 737 crashes?"

The answer is "Because there are so many 737s!"

[BOAC]

Geesh! You should see how many DC-3's have crashed - was there anything wrong with them?:ugh:

[40&80]

Beware..... You are talking about the Lady I love!!