I don't think that's the case, and I don't think that's what the link you provided says. 5% of the pickle forks are showing cracks, after a minimum of 20k fligh

I don't think that's the case, and I don't think that's what the link you provided says. 5% of the pickle forks are showing cracks, after a minimum of 20k flights. It's probably an incorrect analysis (maybe the didn't account for enough cycles in fatigue/failure testing given the extra load from the winglets, maybe the extra load is not well understood and they had bad assumptions). I am very harsh on Boening on how they handled the MAX development and crashes. The pickle fork situation is unfortunate but seems like it is likely an honest error that was caught in the right way and is being dealt with in the right way. I fly 737s frequently, too.