Whatever we may think of the firebox, the Proof of the Pudding is in the eating, they say : three testgroups will be called upon to feel the taste of this Boeing battery pudding : (1) Underwriters, who'll quote revised or unchanged fees for the insurance of the modified 787s ?; and (2) travellers, who'll fly or not with 787s ?
The first group are professional statisticians, they will trim their new quotations to the tune of the firebox' anticipated probabilistic impact upon the overall safety of the 787 and its systems, thoroughly re-assessed. In the background, you have the considered opinion of Lloyd's re-insurance experts. Those people - a special class of 'no-nonsense' bargainers - will tell us whether Boeing were right or wrong ?
A third group of pudding-tasters : 787 flight and cabin crew ?
