Posted on 01/15/2013 6:25:24 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
TOKYO—A Boeing BA +0.51% 787 Dreamliner operated by All Nippon Airways Co. 9202.TO -1.08% made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport in southern Japan on Wednesday morning, the airline and government agencies said, in the latest incident to hit the aircraft.
A spokesman for ANA said the landing was made after an alarm indicated a problem with batteries used in the plane. An official at Takamatsu airport said smoke was detected, but had no further details.
The plane landed at 8:47 a.m. and the 129 passengers were evacuated safely using the plane's emergency slides. The plane had a crew of 8.
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It's mostly hysteria. All new systems have bugs. Boeing has an excellent record and a good reliability and corrective action program.
You want a system really sabatoged by the unions? Try the US government.
I wonder who makes the smokey batteries and the leaky fuel manifolds???
Electrical power requirement for 787 is 10x previous aircraft. APU batteries (for starting) changed out to LiIon which are widely known to have fire problems. Not a good sign.
Not unusual in new, innovative aviation systems. The Air Forces C-17 comes immediately to mind. It had a lot of break-in issues, but has since become the service’s premier airlifter.
LOL
wouldn’t it be funny if that was the one we saw?
well at least they aren’ t breakng up. seems like while it isn’t great news, they’ve been able to control the planes and land okay.
wonder if it’s worker sabotage, deliberately doing bad work.
Yup. Local news playing this up, as Seattle is the original home for Boeing.
ANA has 18 of the Dreamliners.
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