[pfflier]

The story overplays the battery fire with respect to an in-flight fire possibility. If the APU has to be started in flight, then there are much more serious problems to deal with.

Irrespective of that, the media feeds the public the image that debugging of the 787 is a failure by Boeing rather than a normal evolution in all new aircraft. They should consider themselves lucky, debugging the DC-10 and Electra occurred only after fatal crashes of each type.

[ConservativeStatement]

This remains one of the eeriest photos ever taken:

[Mastador1]

My first question would be, who made the battery pack? Is it another wonderful Chinese import? We all know that China only sends us the best! The best counterfeit computer chips, knock offs and poison pet food that is.

[CodeToad]

“They should consider themselves lucky, debugging the DC-10 and Electra occurred only after fatal crashes of each type. “

BS. Engineering does not have to result in failure. Bad mangement is most likely the cause. For every failure there is an engineer saying, “Told ya so.”

[A.A. Cunningham]

Too bad those American mechanics took short cuts - the use of a forklift to remove and install engines 1 and 3 during maintenance - instead of following the book.