U.S.-bound 787 turns back after 'technical issue' (Second 787 issue today)

MarketWatch ^ | 7/12/13 | MarketWatch

[illiac]

New York (MarketWatch)-- An unspecified "technical issue" on a Boeing Co. /quotes/zigman/220026/quotes/nls/ba BA -3.34% 787 Dreamliner forced a Thomson Airways flight to return to Manchester, England on Friday, according to press reports. It is the second incident involving a 787 on Friday; an onboard fire on an empty plane owned by Ethopian Airways briefly closed runways at London's Heathrow Airport.

[illiac]

Are the falling out of the sky....

[Paladin2]

My plastic model airplanes I had as a kid used to break when I tried to make them fly.

[Perdogg]

“If it is Boeing - It ain’t going”

[illiac]

Me too....crashed a lot of balsa models with Cox engines....

[Hardraade]

Those multiculturals and their burning underpants....

[ground_fog]

This is what they get for trying to go green. and they subcontracted out it’s development to places like Korea, Italy, France and India-instead of building it from the ground up in Everett.

Looking more and more like a disaster everyday.

[fella]

First out of Japan now out of Britain. Can’t help but wonder if there’s not a mechanic . . . al issue.

[af_vet_rr]

If only the turn-around happened, nobody would pay it any mind, these kinds of things happen quite often.

The one on fire generates a lot of buzz, but ultimately this is like the shark attacks and the MSM from a few years ago - stuff happens all the time, and on slow newsdays they can ramp up the hype where there is nothing.

[Average Al]

I would rather strap myself to a railroad tanker car carrying oil than fly. ;-)

[A.A. Cunningham]

Fire appears to have occurred in or near the crew rest compartment.

[Rebel_Ace]

Hmmm. Smoking on break?

[SpaceBar]

I would rather strap myself to a...

Hahaha. A gunpowder wagon with square wheels on a gravel road.

[Average Al]

Now we know why they look like a cigar... ;-)

[Tucker39]

How about with nitro?

[Balding_Eagle]

My own thought is that this has much more to do with opening the North Carolina non-union plant than any mechanical part of the plane.

[Paladin2]

THAT don’t look so good.

[Paladin2]

Plastic burns much better than Aluminum or Titanium.

[dinodino]

First of all, union labor does NOT equal quality. Second, I don’t think this tail was built in SC—can you prove that it was?

[Balding_Eagle]

I would respectfully ask you to think bigger, much bigger.

Think of destroying the reputation of the 787, and eventually, of Boeing.

Liberals would burn down their own neighborhood rather than see it lived in without them.

Think of the LA riots, just is simply a different facet of the same rock.

[tanknetter]

Liberals would burn down their own neighborhood rather than see it lived in without them.

Yup. If they can't have the planes built by unionized workers in Washington state, then there's no way they're going to allow them to be built by non-unionized workers in SC.

The term "sabotage" comes from a French (I think) labor dispute where the aggrieved workers tossed their shoes ("Sabot") into the machinery.

And witness what happened with Hostess just recently. Riled-up union workers can be incredibly self-destructive.