Dreamliner... yeah, its a dream alright. For Airbus!!
Sabotage?
I wonder where the “If it ain’t Boeing, I am not going” crowd is lately?
Well IT IS Ethiopian Airlines after all.......
They using the same GM chevy volt batteries?
We need a plane graphic on fire with the “your neighbors will be so jealous you flew on the 787” like the garage on fire volt graphic.
I would imagine in order to get flying again they had to fix all the 787s with the new solution they came up with and tested. If so this will be the first failure of the new fix.
So far the lithiums aren’t panning out for them.
Battery issue no doubt...
This is why I avoid new products for the first couple years that they are in service. Matters not if it is a car or plane. I’m just getting to the point where I might consider flying on the A380.
Somebody left hot coals in the hibachi.
boy o boy! If this fire is around the batteries, this could be very bad news.
Television footage of Heathrow showed damage to the top of the jet’s body near the passenger doors at the rear of the 787. That area of the aircraft houses the crew rest compartment, which sits above the passenger cabin.
The 787’s twin lithium-ion batteries are installed below the floor in electrical bays near the nose and between the wings of the aircraft, far from the damaged area visible in the footage.
FOX Radio News earlier today called the Dreamliner a “Boeing 737.”
I thought two things....
(1) Since when is the 737 called the “Dreamliner?” and
(2) Ethiopian Airlines uses 737s?
Not good for Boeing and not good for Charleston, SC.