Thermal runaway
@UMSCProbe
You are entiteled to your post and and like ever there is some salt in it.
However, the safety of the 787 Dreamliner with the present battery arrangement is seen unsafe for future flight in itīs present state by the regulatory authorities, not by PPRuNe posters on this thread. And i think they made that decision with judgement and wisdom.
Itīs meanwhile obvious that the Li-Cells alone canīt be the problem, the integration into the airframe and its asociated systems and subsystems might be. Contributing might be implantation of the 8 cells into the battery case. This one looks like some 15$ metal case i could built out of pieces available in my garage. It did not contain the event as it should have, and how the nut of cell 3 could survive the burndown of the bolt it was fixed to without any melting damage will be an interesting question.
Last edited by RetiredF4; 6th Feb 2013 at 19:09.