**Now I'm by no means making excuses for Boeing** \- but it's worth remembering that in the aviation industry, EVERYTHING gets "reported" or "logged", every nut &amp; bolt is traceable back to the guy that dug the ore out of the ground etc. etc. so it's easy to make attention-grabbing headlines like this.

There's every chance a faulty coffee machine gets "reported to the FAA" as part of the standard maintenance documentation processes for an airliner, that doesn't mean anything.