If I was flying on a 787 or any plane with LiI batteries at any point in the future, any concerns I had about a battery failure, charger failure, charger SW issue and even thermal runaway would be secondary. All these things can and will fail at some point in the life of the 787. That is taken for granted. There seems to be enough redundancies for the probability of it causing any hazard to the aircraft are pretty low. My primary concern would be the fire containment. ie if there is thermal runaway in a cell any resulting fire would be contained within the battery casing and any fumes vented outside where they can cause no harm. If this was addressed I would be happy to fly on a 787 tomorrow even without the root cause of the battery failure being found. If the fires in the ANA and JI incidents were properly contained I doubt the planes would have been grounded.
Last edited by Cool Guys; 6th Feb 2013 at 10:56.