CNN travel | Boeing 737: How world’s most successful airplane became its most troubled

(CNN) — Over the course of its long history, the Boeing 737 has acquired more nicknames than any other commercial aircraft.

Among them are Baby Boeing, Tin Mouse, Light Twin, Guppy, Bobby, Rudder Rotor, as well as a few less flattering ones, such as Fat Freddy and Dung Beetle.

But none of these is as notorious as Max, the name Boeing has given to the 737’s latest incarnation — now synonymous with disaster, as well as one of the worst corporate blunders of all time.

The problems that marred the 737 Max are intricately linked to the fact that the plane’s foundation is from the 1960s.  —read more—