Uh oh....

From the fire last week...

That sort of fire is bad news on any aircraft.

Does the 787 skin have a lower melt point than sheet aluminum?

If given the option, I choose them over Airbus anytime. But this is bad news for the company. Especially after delaying delivery for years due to various issues with the program. I love the 787 and I love Boeing, but they need to fix this, otherwise the ramifications are going to be significant. I'm sure their French counterparts are wringing their hands, salivating at the thought of new A350 orders.

Plastic burns.

It's not just the shoddy components made by incompetent contractors, this seems like a design flaw.

They have a hot, untested in aircraft lithium-ion battery in a flammable plastic skin.

What could conceivably go wrong?

This was once an airplane.

I remember what the exocets did to the British ships in the Falklands.

If you wanted to post a picture, it didn't come through.

Sorry, it worked in the preview pane, but apparently the host doesn't allow hotlinking. Or too many people saw it and they took it down.

Depends on the plastic. I don't know the composition of the composite used on the 787, entirely possible you are correct, and it has a much lower melting point or combustion point than aluminum.

Who'd of thought this was coming?

Walmart-ization of the aviation industry sure does have its snags doesn't it?

but that title was earned over decades, and many deadly, horrifying crashes.

Let's hope the 787 never strips the DC-10 of that title...

At this point I think caution (grounding aircraft) is a very good thing... for passengers...

pack build so dramatically that they're having new fires they never had before in other planes! I hope they release information soon about what happened.

The 87 is a new plane...and stuff goes wrong.

It's gonna cost all involved money but good that they are doing this to get any issues resolved.

> Most new aircraft have problems.

And when they have "problems" of the nature of "bursting into flames" and
"smoke detected" then it makes the news. (cf Qantas & A380 issues)

What's up pal? Your Boeing shares just taken a dive or something?

I don't have any shares of Boeing, sorry to disappoint.

along with this gem, "Fort Bragg agrees to stop blowing up goats for training."

Just an observation.

who filmed it all...

i.e. Boeing is in deep doodoo

Carbon nanocomposites might be all neat in the laboratory, but if I'm getting on a plane, I want it to be made of riveted aluminum and titanium.