Originally Posted by
texaspilot76
Have you all been hearing this stuff on the news? Evidently, the 787 has turned out to be a huge piece of crap. According to Fox this morning, a Jap 787 had to land due to another battery fire. They've now grounded the whole fleet.
It's real sad that the French build a better plane than we can.
The launch of the A380 wasn't exactly stellar. The wing design initially didn't meet ultimate load specifications and had to be beefed up. The Vmu testing didn't go as planned and as such they severely damaged the test aircraft. Off-shored wiring bundles had to be redesigned as the first batch received were too short. The A380 was grounded for emergency inspections of wing cracks and continues to be a problem. Qantas grounded the A380 for 3 weeks after the uncontained engine failure which damaged other aircraft systems and very narrowly avoided a major crash.
Let's not get too down on the 787. There's a lot of risk in a new aircraft design. I'm sure they'll fix the battery and move on. There's a reason why all of our manuals have cautions and warnings and we get paid
the big bucks.