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Dreamliner fires still unexplained, but 787 soon may fly again
Seven weeks after two separate battery fires caused the grounding of the entire Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet, the US National Transportation Safety Board yesterday released an interim report on its investigation.
The 500-page report offered little in the way of hard facts into the cause of the fire aboard a parked Japan Airlines 787 at Boston Logan Airport in January.
Instead it focused more on the investigation itself, offering "a window into the significant investigative work that has been accomplished so far."
Still, investigators in the next few days are likely to approve flight testing on the widebody aircraft, Reuters reports.
Introduced in 2011, the Dreamliner proved popular with Asian carriers as well as United Airlines. But after the Boston fire and another two weeks later that forced the emergency landing of an All Nippon Airways jet, regulators grounded the fleet.
The 787’s batteries logged more than 2.2 million hours on the ground and in the air, Boeing says, including more than 50,000 flight hours, and never had a incident until the two fires in January.
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