Originally Posted by Cool Guys
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. ...
I won't be so sure about that. The ship's main battery is there (and you can't dispatch without it) not for operational reasons but for safety reasons. The battery is your line of defense in case of fuel starvation, fuel contamination, problems with the fuel system in general, remember iced up fuel pipes? The RAT won't cut it at low airspeed.
And now we have a battery with a basically unknown failure rate. Doesn't matter much whether a burning or smoldering battery is contained in that case - you just want it not burning so that the darn thing provides the power for your brakes ...