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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Re:Has anybody said

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No, the American way is to egregiously cut safety corners in favor of profit, until Something Terrible happens, and the girlymen rise up chanting "Think of the children", then we ban in-flight movies as a Magic Talisman so "nothing like this will ever ever ever happen again". Rinse and repeat.

Compressed charcoal is sometimes called diamond

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How many times have you seen a diamond burn without immersing it in pure oxygen? It's just compressed graphite, after all.

The correct joke should have been: Boeing should reconsider using Sony batteries in their planes.