Improving containment of the aircraft’s batteries in case of fire is the most important fix to be done. I have not seen any regulatory reason why the plane could not fly once this is done. I am sure other improvements can and will be done but the lack of containment was the show stopper.
If I was in the plane at FL350 I would be a lot happier with a solid titanium box etc around the battery than some committee’s decision that the cause of the fire was due to Dendrites/Whiskers or whatever and the manufacturing process has improved now.
Good decision Boeing
Last edited by Cool Guys; 18th February 2013 at 22:25.
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