Not again....

[KeithD]

....the 787



Ooops

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,6643248.story

[Terpe]

Air India

[Terpe]

I'll bet JAL are relieved they just closed a $9.5bn for Airbus A350's

[grahamw48]

Boeing seemed to have lost the plot with that one.

"He said Boeing is working to understand what caused the panel to fall"

It wasn't blinkin fixed on properly mate....do I get a reward ?

Payback for the Comet.

[robbie bobby]

No Graham that was only 50% of what caused it to fall. Gravity also had a hand.....Can I also get a reward too?

Boeing seemed to have lost the plot with that one.

"He said Boeing is working to understand what caused the panel to fall"

It wasn't blinkin fixed on properly mate....do I get a reward ?

[robbie bobby]

....the 787



Ooops

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,6643248.story

As my late Granny used to say "It's all very funny 'til someone loses their eye"

[Michael Parnham]

correct checks not adhered to!

[KeithD]

Boeing caught selling used parts as new to Pentagon http://rt.com/usa/boeing-caught-selling-used-parts-237/ OOPS!!!

[SimonH]

Boeing caught selling used parts as new to Pentagon http://rt.com/usa/boeing-caught-selling-used-parts-237/ OOPS!!!

Wonder if they got that idea from the chap who sold golf ball detectors as bomb detectors

[KeithD]

Another two problems http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24471093

Make sure when you book it isn't one of these

[KeithD]

Latest issues:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...y-problem.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...indscreen.html
http://articles.timesofindia.indiati...or-ai-official

[imagine]

an act of god

[grahamw48]

Latest....a large crack has appeared in a window !

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[KeithD]

I recognise that!

[Arthur Little]

Latest....a large crack has appeared in a window !

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............................................ an act of god

... don't think so, somehow; Good Lord, NO ... He wouldn't have the "bare~faced cheek(s)"!

[KeithD]

More news: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...16624101798050

Engines stopping in mid-air?

Stick to Rolls Royce

[Michael Parnham]

More news: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/...16624101798050

Engines stopping in mid-air?

Stick to Rolls Royce

I can see the 787 being scrapped soon Keith, lots of 777's still filling order books because of its success!

[KeithD]

So they have fixed the batteries now then after the problems a year ago which grounded the fleet for 3 months? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4369c0d8-7...#axzz2qVOuvSM8

[fred]

You think thats bad!!



The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area. Then they took all four engines to takeoff power with a virtually empty aircraft. Not having read the run-up manuals, they had no clue just how light an empty A340-600 really is.

The takeoff warning horn was blaring away in the cockpit because they had all 4 engines at full power.

The aircraft computers thought they were trying to takeoff but it had not been configured properly (flaps/slats, etc.). Then one of the ADAT crew decided to pull the circuit breaker on the Ground Proximity Sensor to silence the alarm. This fools the aircraft into thinking it is in the air. The computers automatically released all the brakes and set the aircraft rocketing forward.

The ADAT crew had no idea that this is a safety feature so that pilots can't land with the brakes on.

Not one member of the seven-man Arab crew was smart enough to throttle back the engines from their max power setting, so the $200 million brand-new aircraft crashed into a blast barrier, totalling it.

The extent of injuries to the crew is unknown, for there has been a news blackout in the major media in France and elsewhere.

Coverage of the story was deemed insulting to Moslem Arabs.
Read more at http://snopes.com/photos/airplane/et...I6IR6LGGxFX.99

[grahamw48]

I think camel-riding is more their forte

[Dedworth]

Superb pictures on that link thanks Fred

[Dedworth]

I think camel-riding is more their forte

Do you mean conventional riding Graham ?