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Boeing Completes Tests Leading To Resumption Of Dreamliner Operations
With little fanfare but lots of effort, the Boeing Company this week is completing all the tasks required by the Federal Aviation Administration to demonstrate the 787 Dreamliner is ready for a return to routine operations. FAA personnel have participated at each stage in the testing of a comprehensive fix for battery issues that prompted a global grounding of the planes in January, so the company is hopeful it will get quick approval for a return to flight in May. (www.forbes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Isn't it a fix if the fire is better contained and vented? Root cause is not easy and should not be trusted. This is why redundancy in safety is used in many systems because all faults can't be anticipated.
Our government should do everything possible to help Boeing get the 787 back in the air. Airbus has their equivalent A-350 about ready to compete with the 787 and we will lose a lot of U.S. business and jobs if the 787 doesn't get back in the air soon.
RRKen, I think your analysis of the Lithium Battery reality has been pretty well recalled, with the exception of one incident with the B787 during a trial stages, where the aircraft had very serious battery fire situation/emergency, etc, investigation that never became known to the public.
We are still awaiting an official pronouncement on the "Proximate Cause", or results on the current testing overloading the Lithium Batteries the determine if "Battery Shields" and/or "Smoke Vents" do operate according to the FAA/NTSB(who are ultimately responsible for the end product) requirements and that measures will not endanger future flights, and especially the Passengers.
We are still awaiting an official pronouncement on the "Proximate Cause", or results on the current testing overloading the Lithium Batteries the determine if "Battery Shields" and/or "Smoke Vents" do operate according to the FAA/NTSB(who are ultimately responsible for the end product) requirements and that measures will not endanger future flights, and especially the Passengers.
This is good news for the dreamliner. Even though Boeing is a competitor, I've always found their engineers to be top notch. I was certain they'd come up with a viable solution to the lithium battery problem.
"....that problems with the lithium-ion batteries used on the plane were being exaggerated in the media."
I never read an exaggeration. I read about smoke, burnt up battery cells, and forced landings because of the batteries. I read about the fire on UPS because of those cells and saw the damage to craft N748UP in Philadelphia during 2006. In 1999 at an NWA cargo facility. The tragic UPS fire in Saudi Arabia in 2010. All of of which the NTSB investigated.
Those are facts, not fabrications or media hype.
Anyone who has ever done business at the Post Office has seen posters stating they do not accept Lithium type batteries for carriage.
Some people take the general public for fools and idiots (most of which are in the TV advertising business).
Yet, a "fix" was found without knowing the root cause? It's like taking your car to the dealer for cabin smoke, and being told it was "fixed' even tho they have no idea what caused it. If that strikes confidence in you, good.
But in a composite aircraft, that cannot withstand potential 1000° fires, I have a hard time feeling comfortable. Not when I see what happened to two other metal crafts. And if you consider that fear-mongering or media hype, the perhaps you are stuck in a paradigm that is a tad bit unrealistic.
I never read an exaggeration. I read about smoke, burnt up battery cells, and forced landings because of the batteries. I read about the fire on UPS because of those cells and saw the damage to craft N748UP in Philadelphia during 2006. In 1999 at an NWA cargo facility. The tragic UPS fire in Saudi Arabia in 2010. All of of which the NTSB investigated.
Those are facts, not fabrications or media hype.
Anyone who has ever done business at the Post Office has seen posters stating they do not accept Lithium type batteries for carriage.
Some people take the general public for fools and idiots (most of which are in the TV advertising business).
Yet, a "fix" was found without knowing the root cause? It's like taking your car to the dealer for cabin smoke, and being told it was "fixed' even tho they have no idea what caused it. If that strikes confidence in you, good.
But in a composite aircraft, that cannot withstand potential 1000° fires, I have a hard time feeling comfortable. Not when I see what happened to two other metal crafts. And if you consider that fear-mongering or media hype, the perhaps you are stuck in a paradigm that is a tad bit unrealistic.
The UPS fire/incident was in the United Arab Emirates, not Saudi Arabia.
A very good news ! We pray this will be the end of he dreamliners problem. More grease to the handlers of the lithium battery issue.