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Japanese Probe Finds Miswiring of Boeing 787 Battery
NeverVotedBush writes in with the latest installment of the Dreamliner: Boeing 787 saga. "A probe into the overheating of a lithium ion battery in an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 that made an emergency landing found it was improperly wired, Japan's Transport Ministry said Wednesday. The Transport Safety Board said in a report that the battery for the aircraft's auxiliary power unit was incorrectly connected to the main battery that overheated, although a protective valve would have prevented power from the auxiliary unit from causing damage. Flickering of the plane's tail and wing lights after it landed and the fact the main battery was switched off led the investigators to conclude there was an abnormal current traveling from the auxiliary power unit due to miswiring."
Can't they make an idiot proof power plug?
Because idiots are much more resourceful than ordinary people.
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It's the damned metric +/- that causes all the confusion.
Yes, never let a (albeit short) track record of no fatal crashes get in the way of an entertaining conspiracy theory.
When you say "Japanese Probe" I had an entirely different idea in my head regarding what this story was about.
It wasn't me! I swear it wasn't me! I've never worked on an aircraft in my life!
Sux2bthatguy!!
(Note that Runaway is color vision impaired, and has in fact wired things wrong from time to time.)
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For the Prius accelerator screwup....
They originally planned to use 60 miles of wiring but then they only ordered 60 kilometers of wires so two thirds of the devices are not connected. It's not that big of a problem though since most things are covered by redundancy.