787 on Fire in London

[jumpwally 0]

Here we go again.......

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[airdvr 210]

Hard to understand how a parked airliner could shut down the airport.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/12/fire-on-boeing-787-dreamliner-shuts-london-heathrow/

Please don't dent the planet.

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airdvr

Hard to understand how a parked airliner could shut down the airport.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/12/fire-on-boeing-787-dreamliner-shuts-london-heathrow/

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/12/19438748-boeing-787-dreamliner-catches-fire-at-london-heathrow-airport

Quote from this article: "The aircraft was not blocking either runway, but with all the airport's fire crews tacking the Boeing 787 incident, authorities were forced to suspend all departures and arrivals because of safety rules."

So, basically, sounds like it was all hands on deck dealing with this fire, which would mean no hands available for another emergency, so they just shut everything else down for an hour.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

[Zep 0]

airdvr

Hard to understand how a parked airliner could shut down the airport.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/12/fire-on-boeing-787-dreamliner-shuts-london-heathrow/

Thats because you don't live in a nanny state.

Gone fishing

[Phil1111 1,149]

Exterior fire damage to AC is right above a crew rest area.

Smoking cigarettes? Smoking ganga?

Cooking using too much firewood?

Too much Khat?

[tbrown 26]

Phil1111

Exterior fire damage to AC is right above a crew rest area.

Smoking cigarettes? Smoking ganga?

Cooking using too much firewood?

Too much Khat?

Right above the crew rest huh ? During my years at Boeing, I knew a few people who'd served on travelling AOG (aircraft on ground) teams. AOG teams would make onsite repairs to planes that could not be moved. Some of the stories they told were most interesting. There ARE parts of the world where airline passengers do their own cooking, in flight, in the aisles, with open gas flames. Here in the US, where it's illegal to even light a smoke, that may be hard to believe, and I'll probably catch hell for being un-PC. But there are still people who play with fire onboard airplanes.

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[turtlespeed 226]

Phil1111

Exterior fire damage to AC is right above a crew rest area.

Smoking cigarettes? Smoking ganga?

Cooking using too much firewood?

Too much Khat?

They were grabbing a water bottles worth of Jet A to start the bonfire with.

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[MikeJD 0]

Zep

***Hard to understand how a parked airliner could shut down the airport.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/12/fire-on-boeing-787-dreamliner-shuts-london-heathrow/

Thats because you don't live in a nanny state.

You didn't like living in the UK - this much has become clear. But you know, you don't need to bash it at every opportunity .

[Phil1111 1,149]

The focus of the current investigation is on a ELT transmitter as the likely cause. Of which 6000 similar units are in service now.

[ryoder 1,590]

Phil1111

The focus of the current investigation is on a ELT transmitter as the likely cause. Of which 6000 similar units are in service now.

And now the workaround is to turn off or remove the ELTs: http://news.yahoo.com/switch-off-honeywell-beacons-boeing-dreamliners-fire-investigators-160554484.html

Irony.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[DiverMike 5]

Seems like a very stupid 'fix' to me, but I am not an investor in Boeing. Apparently, they think it is brilliant as the stock has gone up based on the concept they could implement this 'fix'.

For the same reason I jump off a perfectly good diving board.