I suppose one should add the other 787 issues in the last 2 weeks besides United's..
Last week, a Denver to Tokyo flight was diverted because of an oil indicator light. On June 12, an All Nippon Airways Dreamliner flight was canceled when an engine would not start. On the previous day, a Japan Airlines flight to Singapore returned to Tokyo because of a deicing problem.
So deicing, brakes, oil indicator, wont start...
How many flights vs flights with issues?
For me, there is a difference between having certain bugs with a new launch aircraft, and having 50% of the flights diverting due to issues.
Somehow, that is a bit outside of the 10 -6 SMS probablity.
Last edited by FlightPathOBN; 24th Jun 2013 at 22:04.