Aviation is an abundant source of metaphors, but not always as self-generating as the terrifying Alaska Airlines incident that has once again brought Boeing low: a hole blown in the side of an ascending plane, a gap that was not properly plugged, passengers staring into the void.
The safe landing of flight 1282 on 5 January after a boy literally lost the shirt from his back as the air was sucked out at 4,300 metres means Boeing can count itself lucky that it does not
