Boeing 787 fire shuts down Heathrow

uhohs

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23294760

Heathrow shut after 'Boeing Dreamliner 787' fire

Runways at London's Heathrow airport have closed after an incident reportedly involving an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet.

Arrivals and departures have been suspended, a spokesman for the airport said. The airport said in a tweet that there were no passengers aboard.

Fifty Dreamliners worldwide were grounded in January because of battery malfunctions.

Boeing later modified the jets with new batteries.

In April an Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner - said to be the same plane involved in the Heathrow incident - flew from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on the first commercial flight since the grounding.

Pictures on Twitter show an aircraft close to a terminal building surrounded by fire vehicles. London Fire Brigade said its crews were standing by to assist Heathrow staff.

In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: "Police at Heathrow were alerted to a fire on a plane. Emergency services are in attendance.

"At this time it is believed no one was on board and there are no reports of any injuries. Fire is being treated as unexplained."

nice batteries :hmm:
 

IronWing

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I miss the good old days when they could jump start the planes with a powder cartridge.
 

lupi

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Ethiopia has an airlines? Does it use the jolly rodgers as its emblem?
 

PottedMeat

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Boeing: please be an engine fire please be an engine fire please be an engine fire

A Heathrow spokesman said: "We can confirm there has been an on-board internal fire involving an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft and the airport's emergency services are in attendance.

nope, that bitch is electric
 

foghorn67

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from airliners.net, it may not be a battery fire. Let's wait and see before we freak out.
 

CrimsonWolf

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from airliners.net, it may not be a battery fire. Let's wait and see before we freak out.

Yeah, the WSJ article on it says this:

"At Heathrow, television footage showed damage to the top of the jet's body near the passenger doors at the rear of the 787. That area of the aircraft houses the crew rest compartment, which sits above the passenger cabin. The 787's twin lithium-ion batteries are installed below the floor in electrical bays near the nose and between the wings of the aircraft, far from the damaged area visible in the footage."

Still sucks balls for Boeing but it at least shouldn't be as bad if it's not the batteries.
 

techs

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"Caution: Normal operation of this airliner may lead to fire and gruesome death"
 

Svnla

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**Svnla is making his plan to fly to Asia in a few months and making sure all the planes are not 787 Dreamliner***
 

KeithP

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There going to find out one of crew members smoking caused the problem.

-KeithP
 

Balt

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/sigh @ Boeing. They need to get their shit together. No one wants to be a passenger in a flying fire hazard.

Even if it isn't the batteries, it looks really bad unless they can prove someONE set fire to it intentionally.