Boeing 787 Dreamliner Fire at Heathrow

[DeSwiss]

NTDTV·Published on Jul 13, 2013

Only months after being returned to service, one of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner planes at London's Heathrow Airport caught fire.

Full story:
A fresh blow for U.S. planemaker Boeing: one of its 787 Dreamliners operated by Ethiopian Airlines caught fire at Britain's Heathrow Airport, Friday.

Television footage showed an area on the fuselage that appeared to be scorched. Heathrow briefly closed both its runways to tame the fire, which broke out while the plane was parked at a remote stand. No passengers were aboard.

The latest incident comes only months after the Dreamliner returned to service. Boeing was forced to ground the new planes in January after batteries caught fire on two of its jets in a span of two weeks. Federal regulators approved the Dreamliner's return to service in April.

Boeing said that it had people on the ground working to understand the cause of fire, while the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it was in contact with Boeing.

The Dreamliner, considered to be a game changer for Boeing, was being closely watched to see if it could fly incident free. It has faced nearly a decade of development, billions of dollars in overruns and three years of delays.

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[BlueJazz]

1. My friends wife works for an Airline Company and people actually call up and say things like..

What fights to London do you have that are NOT flown on a 787 ??

OUCH !

[BlueStreak]

3. It has almost reached the point that Boeing will have to rename the product

replacing the "787 Dreamliner" with "797 Reliant" or something like that. That is what most businesses would do at this point. The problem they have is that it is such a narrow market that everybody would see exactly how transparent that would be. It isn't like GM where you can just throw on some fresh chrome and call it a whole new car.

I have flown a lot and I am not overly anal about these things, but I don't plan to ever fly on a Dreamliner.

[DFW]

2. So far, it looks like these fires all occur while the plane is on the ground

The obvious solution is to only board these planes while they are airborne.

[BlueStreak]

4. It is worth a try.

People could ascend on a "tanker" plan, and then slide down the pole to board the 787.

[DFW]

5. Careful: Boeing engineers are probably taking your suggestion seriously

It beats scrapping the 787 altogether.

[YOHABLO]

6. More like a ''Nightmare-liner'' I won't get on one either .. they'll push it on us ..>

Boeing has invested too much into the production of this airplane .. so they'll scrap what they can and rename it .. how in the world can they insure it?