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>> We're told this is very much an ongoing investigation, and that it's unclear whether or not this is a widespread issue.

TL;DR: a crack in a critical part was found in one plane during a routine inspection. But you wouldn't know that unless you read all the way to the middle of the article. This is a non-story engineered to create outrage and clicks.

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>> Another source tells us Boeing quickly reported the issue with the single plane to the FAA last week, and now more planes with similar cracking have been found.

Looks to be more than just one plane.

> Another source tells us Boeing quickly reported the issue with the single plane to the FAA last week, and now more planes with similar cracking have been found.

How many? Could be as few as 2. Out of thousands.

It is clearly not all planes were disassembled and checked, from what I read it is not a routine check so it will take a while until all planes are checked. So yeah they may have found only 2 more planes with cracks because they only checked 2 more planes that were already disassembled.

Really, the only thing we know is that it's not a single plane.... which is the cause for concern.

2/7000 is not a very low incidence rate as far as safety concerns go. Many cars are recalled for far less severe issues with orders of magnitude lower incidence rates.

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