787 Dreamliner On Fire Again

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 12, 2013 @05:43AM from the hot-topic dept.

Antipater writes "It looks like there's more trouble afoot for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner: London's Heathrow Airport was shut down for over an hour as fire crews attended to a 'suspected fire' on a Dreamliner owned by Ethiopia Airlines. 'Aerial pictures of the scene on the U.K.'s Sky News showed the new plane — which was not carrying passengers at the time — had been sprayed by foam, but there were no signs of fire. The aircraft was not blocking either runway, but with all the airport's fire crews tackling the Boeing 787 incident, authorities were forced to suspend departures and arrivals because of safety rules.'"

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One system to rule them all... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-12 05:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

Sad how one badly designed subsystem can take down an entire product.
Whistleblower vindicated again by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-12 05:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

Whistleblower Michael Leon warned of this in 2006:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100406310
And for that he was terminated and his career ruined. Too bad management never wants to listen.