I am a private pilot and I follow aviation news for fun, even when it's not the current thing.<p>This minor stuff happens all the time and is being over-reported.
I honestly think that at this point, some of the reported things are things that happened all the time but since Boeing is under the microscope, the media, et al are going crazy on their reporting. There is an emergency landing, on average, about once a day even prior to all of this.