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Originally Posted by Skybird
German news Die Welt refers to British official investigation reports, quoting that the Brits make again issues with the Lithium batteries linked to the emergency transponder responsible for the fire. Report says that fires in that part of the plane cannot be extinguished in mid flight since the extinguishers cannot reach there, and thus this fire could have led to disaster if it had happened in midair, over the Atlantic - less than one third of incidents with such fires ended with anything less than total loss of the plane, says an earlier British report on such flight accidents which gets also referred to.
The batteries again. Quelle surprise.
Are jobs and profits still more important than lives, or when will they ground these damn planes, finally? The neon-red, bold-printed, capital lettered writing on the wall does not become any clearer. The electrical system is bull. Just this: bull. You pushed that dependency too far, Boeing, and with too inapt energy carriers.
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Of course! look at the O ring on the Challenger. The safest plane is a Cessna 172...when I'm not in it- "clear prop magneto on" (allright master switch)! Imagine my shock one time when on pre flight inspection, I found the prop hub bolts not wired!!! and the certified mechanic, who cleared the plane, said he'd "get to it.!!" He is no longer certified and my hand still hurts; and I'm in VIIB's now. My landing in front of the now defunct 98th aerosquadron theme restaurant at a certain airport was a classic-flat mainspar tire-the thud tripped my emer. xmitter.... Two rules: anyone you walk away from is a good one and it's the little things that kill you-tighten those gas caps on the upper wing slipstream after the fueler is done.
