Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing

hcs_$reboot writes "The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has already occupied some of Slashdot news space recently: FAA to investigate the 787 (Jan 11) or 787 catches fire in Boston (Jan 08). Today (Jan 16 JST) another incident happened that led to Japan grounding its entire 787 fleet until an internal investigation gives more information about the problem. A 787 from ANA had a battery problem and smoke was detected in the electronics. The plane had to make an emergency landing and passengers were evacuated. "

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Has anybody said

[Joce640k]

"Dreamliner, Screamliner..."

Re:Has anybody said

[kelemvor4]

Actually, the American way is to say that safety concerns are not an issue when I can't imagine they didn't know they are

No, the American way is to say that the market will find an optimal solution, and if customers want safe airlines, they're free to purchase from another carrier.

You know, the whole laissez-faire capitalism thing.

If we implement safety features on the more expensive airliners, the safety features will eventually trickle down to the less expensive ones.

Re:I survived.

[TheNinjaroach]

Have any creepy new nine year olds in your life lately?

Evacuating Passengers

[holophrastic]

I know the TSA has been doing cavity searches for a long time. But exacuating passengers seems both extreme, and dirty. Shouldn't the world health organization have something to say about this?

Maybe next time there's an emergency landing, they should consider evacuating the plane, instead of the passengers. Besides, if it's a rough landing, some of the passengers are likely to self-evacuate.

We need WiFi in those planes ASAP

[sshir]

With internet connection it is much more handy to short Boeing stock on the first whiff of smoke.