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Another Boeing 787 Dreamliner fire, closes Heathrow
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I think that one flew over your head.
Portugeezer
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Plane fire
COMBO BREAKER!!!
COMBO BREAKER!!!
Other than failure of the airframe, a fire is about the worst 'incident' which can happen on a plane. This isn't a mechanical niggle, it looks like a design flaw and if the battery pack has went up again, it's a flaw they attempted to mitigate and have failed to do so.
It's not the amount of issues, it's the nature of the issue. Persistent electrical fires are not within the realm of normal teething issues.
This looks to be in the wrong location for a battery pack fire, so it might be a new issue or it might be crew error.
Does anyone find these puns funny? I guess it's still up in the air.
Escape Goat
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Thankfully this thread is flying under the radar so mods shouldn't interefere.
How do I come up with a funny pun, should I just wing it?
peaceiscloser
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Well when you're shooting it down like that...
Yeah Musk has given Boeing constructive advice on several occasions this year:
http://www.businessinsider.com/elon...-batteries-are-fundamentally-dangerous-2013-1
Not good for the Dreamliner. I hope this can be sorted out quick and there won't be another 4 month grounding.
Delta inherited a couple of 787 orders from Northwest but deferred them until 2020s or so. They intend to get every use out of their 767s before jumping into the 787. American has some on order I believe, but it's up to the pending pilot contract or something along of those lines.
As regards to Ethiopian owning a 787, they are a state owned airline. Hell the average fleet of age of theirs is about 8 years old compared to most US majors which average about 11-13 years old.
Delta inherited a couple of 787 orders from Northwest but deferred them until 2020s or so. They intend to get every use out of their 767s before jumping into the 787. American has some on order I believe, but it's up to the pending pilot contract or something along of those lines.
As regards to Ethiopian owning a 787, they are a state owned airline. Hell the average fleet of age of theirs is about 8 years old compared to most US majors which average about 11-13 years old.
Probably pure speculation but I see in The Telegraph's comments section, some are saying the planes coffee making machine was left on, which then caught fire. Apparently the master switch did not trip.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...fter-Dreamliner-catches-fire-at-Heathrow.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...fter-Dreamliner-catches-fire-at-Heathrow.html
Jezbollah
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United Airlines are currently flying 6 787s.
The fire was in the vicinity of the rear galley so this is very possible and much easier to resolve technically and PR wise.
Boeing will likely be more concerned with why the Thomson 787 had technical difficulties.
The fire was in the vicinity of the rear galley so this is very possible and much easier to resolve technically and PR wise.
Boeing will likely be more concerned with why the Thomson 787 had technical difficulties.
SirIgbyCeaser
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I would be scared to take planes from a country like ethiopia :S
Oh yeah I was there. This happened shortly before my flight was gonna leave and I was rather pissed off.
I mean we were sitting on the ground for ages only being informed that landings and take off were suspended "for some reason". Eventually they told us that this was because some plane parked somewhere was on fire, the fire brigade was on the case and thus there wasn't enough of them to watch over the runways. Like, seriously?
I mean we were sitting on the ground for ages only being informed that landings and take off were suspended "for some reason". Eventually they told us that this was because some plane parked somewhere was on fire, the fire brigade was on the case and thus there wasn't enough of them to watch over the runways. Like, seriously?
Darth Pinche
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I feel bad for Boeing. I recently took a flying lesson at Paine field outside Seattle, next to Boeing's main factory. They had about 7 787's sitting on a runaway in the private airfield, just waiting, mostly completed. My instructor said those plane have been sitting for a long time and were there since Boeing had too many other plans just sitting due to problems.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I actually rode one of these last month on a flight to Poland.
Its just a regular old plane, if you ask me. I mean, there's marginally more space on them than your average domestic plane, but that's true for most long-haul flights. I suppose most of the improvements are things I couldn't see. I guess it was kind of neat to have a little map showing where we are in the flight. I guess. Some asshole had a 300,000 score on in-flight Tetris too and I barely cracked the top ten with like 145,000. I don't even know how that's possible.
Its just a regular old plane, if you ask me. I mean, there's marginally more space on them than your average domestic plane, but that's true for most long-haul flights. I suppose most of the improvements are things I couldn't see. I guess it was kind of neat to have a little map showing where we are in the flight. I guess. Some asshole had a 300,000 score on in-flight Tetris too and I barely cracked the top ten with like 145,000. I don't even know how that's possible.
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