All that aside..
The NTSB report showed that the battery was tested, the charging system was tested, but the battery and charging system were not tested together, and the entire system was not tested while installed in the aircraft, nor with the entire electrical system of the aircraft.
How this approach permeates throughout how the rest of the aircraft was tested, remains to be seen.
As we have all noted, the exact cause has not yet been determined.
The sum of the parts does not always equal a whole....
edit: remember back to some of the early issues with this aircraft? Remember the retro fit of titanium wires for lightening arrest. Really, a comp aircraft, and it went that far down the path, before lightening was addressed?
and of course, the associated extra weight of all the wires...
Last edited by FlightPathOBN; 10th Mar 2013 at 18:19.