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Japanese airlines say 787 batteries replaced up to 10 times
TOKYO — All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines said they replaced lithium-ion batteries in their Boeing 787 Dreamliners on multiple occasions before a battery overheating incident led to the worldwide grounding of the jets. ANA said Wednesday it replaced batteries on its 787 aircraft 10 times because they failed to charge properly or showed other problems and informed Boeing about the swaps. Japan Airlines said it had also replaced lithium-ion batteries on its 787 jets but couldn't… (news.msn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Just replace them with the Energizer bunny :)
Really hope Boeing gets this fixed quickly. The 787 is a great engineering feat, but their execution in putting together the total package has been marred by management miscalculations, possible engineering overreach, mixed with bad luck. Even with all the outsourcing, their engineering talent was stretched very thin.
I was involved in the B747 Large Cargo Freighter (DreamLifter) program from 2005-2008 and there was tremendous pressure to get that bird certified in order to start moving 787 components from worldwide suppliers to Everett, Charleston, Wichita.
The first fuselage sections moved from Nagoya to Charleston in January of 2007. Due management timeline pressures the sections were shipped incomplete and large teams of Japanese technicians were sent from NGO to CHS to complete the work (at considerable cost). They spent months finishing the 1st section and subsequent sections. This was my first inkling that something was not quite right.
It's been a long bumpy road and I hope they find the problem and a fix quickly.
I was involved in the B747 Large Cargo Freighter (DreamLifter) program from 2005-2008 and there was tremendous pressure to get that bird certified in order to start moving 787 components from worldwide suppliers to Everett, Charleston, Wichita.
The first fuselage sections moved from Nagoya to Charleston in January of 2007. Due management timeline pressures the sections were shipped incomplete and large teams of Japanese technicians were sent from NGO to CHS to complete the work (at considerable cost). They spent months finishing the 1st section and subsequent sections. This was my first inkling that something was not quite right.
It's been a long bumpy road and I hope they find the problem and a fix quickly.
It will be interesting to know the responses from Boeing to all complaints/feedback sent by various users . I wonder if Boeing too considered this problem of battery too insignificant and " not really aviation related " ? Again , professionalism goes abegging . Sad , very sad ! :-( :-(
You know, you would have thought that with 787 development being under such close scrutiny and that termal runaway being a known haszard on those batteries(bring down 2 cargo planes) that they would have been looked at with a microscope. Maybe they were but something must have slipped by.
Hopefully they'll get this fixed. Airbus will most likely learn from this and tweak a few things on their A350. The last thing we need is fires on new airplanes
Boeing, after the 3 year delay, had to be under incredible pressure to start shipping the 787 and generate a revenue stream. Under the type of production pressure they faced quality problems or design problems were clearly going to surface. Wait till the problems with the carbon fibre airframe begin to surface! That will be a challenging fix.