The B741 was an extremely problematic aircraft yet is still one of the most successful aircraft in the sky. It shared the same new fears and awe.
YES, but ,unlike the "screamliner", It did'n't suddenly.randomly and spontaneously combust
Regarding the article referenced by Girom,- a shower of tossers all trying to pass the buck for an enormous, unprecedented clusterfxxk .
Why the sudden kludge of putting it in a "tin" box with a drain-pipe over the side????....SURELY that was implicit in the original special certification conditions.
90 engineers to take 3 months to design a battery????...C'mon! what are they? high school students in a physics class? (the same shower that designed the present self-destruct system?
I'd call it dereliction of duty, professional malpractice and negligence if MY design-team had integrated a novel charger and battery-system without making sure that proven substitutes could be readily slotted in place.
pissup/brewery/ couldn't /organise... rearrange into a well-known saying and submit to Boeing shareholders.
Agree wholeheartedly with the last few posts by engineers...Boeings 787 pax are all in the boardroom.