Slashdot Mirror
Boeing Dreamliner Catches Fire In Boston
19061969 writes "The BBC reports that a Boeing 787 Dreamliner caught fire in Boston. Carter Leake, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets in Virginia, said, 'I don't want to be an alarmist, but onboard fires on airplanes are as bad as it gets.' This represents bad news for Boeing especially after the FAA identified errors in the assembly of fuel line couplings in the Dreamliner."
The dreamliner turns into a nightmare. Film at 11.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
It could've been worse, at least the battery fire occured after it landed. Statistically speaking, flying in an airplane is still far safer than flying in your own bathtub.
Citing a thing like "FAA identified errors in the assembly of fuel line couplings in the Dreamliner." when the actual fire, according to this morning's Boston Globe, was "[a] Small electrical fire..."
This article brought to you by Airbus Industries.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
you could open a window
Dear passengers: I have bad and good news for you. The bad news: we lost a wing. The good news: it was on fire anyway.
I think AC is immune to all pressure effects.... don't you remember the time that AC escaped from the nazis by scuba diving out of a torpedo tube at 180 meters depth?
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
A plane full of priests and boy scouts... Nevermind, that's simply too terrifying to contemplate.
I was considering lauding your rigorous statistics, but I can't find anything to support it. The closest thing I can find is the fact that there have been zero deaths of human cannonballs in the last 18 months. This suggests to me that flying in nothing at all is better than flying in an airplane. While ducks and other seasonal game may disagree on the point, I would think that most other birds would agree that plane-less flight is actually safer on a per-mile basis.
Besides, bathtubs can't fly. That's just silly.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.