787 DREAMLINER DELAY TO BA

TimFitzgeraldTC.
Thanks for the “heads-up”. I heard something like this 10 days ago, but BA744fan said “no worries, BA will still get the first 787 in May!” It is more serious than first expected, and since then Airbus has also said that they will be doing away with the same type of battery.
How many readers would fly on a plane with a “short-term/interim” fix?

I found this in an article about the TWA flight 800 that crashed off the US coast in 1996. Anyone know more about it?

In 2009 Boeing advised the FAA that its new Boeing 787 Dreamliner could not meet the new safety standards. The FAA proposed to relax the safeguards for preventing sparks inside the fuel tank, calling them “impractical.”

I understand it was a Wikipedia article but rather amplifies Henkel’s feelings above.

I know more about TWA800 lloydah: –

TWA800 was shot down by a surface to air missile fired from an updated type 21, just like AF447. Witnesses walking on the beach stated that they saw a bright light rising from the sea into the sky. As part of the cover up, the NTSB came up with the pathetic story that what they saw was burning jet fuel. However, after the explosion, the jet fuel would be falling to earth not going upwards! People are so gullible.

There was talk of a spark in the mostly empty centre fuel tank if I remember correctly, and a future solution of filling the tanks with an inert gas, but nothing much came of it.

I don’t know too much about the 787, but can anyone explain why it needs a backup battery and can’t rely on an APU like most planes? I don’t much like the solution of containing a possible fire/meltdown of the battery, and the boss of LOT said that they do not expect to get their 787s flying again until October.

I’ve found that piece too Buksnet. Also I believe it. However, is the thing about Boeing and the safety within the wing tanks still an issue or was it simply made up to cover certain facts they didn’t want to surface – re. the TWA crash.

“TWA800 was shot down by a surface to air missile fired from an updated type 21, just like AF447” WTF ?

Bucksnet, you need to get out less !

I’m trying to think of another new airliner which has had problems on the scale of the 787 and I can’t. Given how long it was delayed in manufacturing isn’t this extraordinary that there are now these problems?

Is it just that we are more aware of potential problems these days and have better monitoring of them whereas in previous times there were crashes or is this aircraft truly a dud?

I don’t think that led to the same scale of total grounding.