Magazine apologizes for publishing ‘unsavory’ aircraft cartoon after Air India disaster

The New Yorker has apologized after placing a cartoon that enjoys the pains of air travel hours after A fatal plane crash in India.

The legendary magazine placed the sketch on Thursday, less than eight hours after the air India crash that killed more than 200 in Gujarat.

The crash took place just after 4 hours et, and The post was removed After about two hours.

In a statement, a representative for the publication explained how the message was published.

“The Instagram post was planned for today’s tragic news from India,” said a New Yorker spokesperson in a statement. “We have since removed the post and regret the unintended bad timing.”

The statement was sent just before 3 p.m. after dozens had already broadcast their indignation.

The sketch of the old editorial cartoonist Joe Dato showed a potential flight traveler who had just missed a plane. A non -sympathetic airport employee is seen who tells him, “You said you wanted an earlier flight.”

The clou, not surprising, was not well received.

“This is very bad. Show it as quickly as possible, “one user of social media snipped, while dozens of the same begged.

“Omg read the room!” someone else raged. ‘How can you post this the day of one of the world’s deadliest aviation accidents? ‘

“Please delete,” said a third.

“No guys, no,” added a fourth and also demanded that the cartoon was removed.

The 100-year publication ultimately obliged, before he tackles Daily Mail, was tackling in a statement just before 3 p.m.

Users had speculated about the slip-up, whereby someone called on the cause correctly.

“The dangers of planned messages,” the user wrote, while another commentator asked others to “allow more time” before bashing the newspaper.

The post then quickly came down. The cartoon was first published in 2015.

Regarding the still unprecated crash of Air India Flight 171, emergency services are still finding survivors.

So far, officials have said that at least one person survived on board the plane.

It was the first fatal crash and the first hull loss with a Boeing 787 since the introduction of the aircraft in 2011.

In January 2024 A former Boeing employee who worked on the 787, John Barnett, It appeared on TMZ to warn of oppressive employees deliberately fit ‘sub-standard’ parts to such aircraft.

His warning would turn out to be prophetic, with a 787 who experienced a ‘technical event’ for the air that injured 50 passengers that March.

Barnett was found dead by a self -boned rifle wound in South Carolina days earlier.

Boeing has been deemed responsible in recent years for three high-profile accidents with the individual MAX plane of 737, including Two fatale who killed a total of 346 people, And all Max -Jets left behind for almost two years worldwide.

‘Due to the crash, there can be an improved study on production and quality procedures. At the moment, however, we do not feel that there will be a long-term impact on production, “said Edward Jones analyst Jeff Windau at the time.

The company was also confronted with federal investigations and a storm of civil claims from families of victims.

Earlier this month, Boeing agreed to a deal with the US Department of Justice who will pay a settlement of $ 1.1 billion to prevent prosecution over the two crashes, including 444.5 million to the families of the victims. The crashes took place in 2018 and 2019.

The Air India plane that crashed in the city of Ahmedabad was now more than ten years old. It flew for the first time at the end of 2013 and was delivered to Air India in January 2014. In the years since it had collected more than 41,000 flying hours.

The crash remains in research.