Qantas 737

It seems every cough, hiccup, or safety check is presently brought to light as a major threat. Highlighted by the Qantas 747 suffering an explosive decompression earlier this month every minor concern or safety check is making headlines, clearly flavour of the month. These minor interruptions are part and parcel of the stringent standards employed in the commercial aviation industry and have been happening since planes first took to the air, not just the last month.
Late last year when leaving the mining town of Newman in W.A. the flight before mine had a catastrophic engine failure just ten minutes into the flight, and fortunately made it back. As Qantas had no spare aircraft they had to charter one from National Jet Services to ferry the stranded passengers. Some of which were too shaken up by the engine failure and instead hired vehicles to drive the required thirteen hours back to Perth. This incident was notably significant, though it did not even make for front page news, and may even be hard to find record of even now.

To reiterate, I feel it's just flavour of the month.