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JAL Dreamliner nightmare continues
A third JAL Dreamliner has had a performance incident this week. A 787 Dreamliner scheduled to fly out of Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan was taken out of service on Wednesday due to brake problems.
It follows two incidents with JAL Dreamliners this week, both at Boston Logan Airport. In the first incident an electrical fire broke out on the aircraft and in the second one, on Tuesday, fuel was spotted leaking from the aircraft by a pilot from another flight that was taking off on the tarmac.
All the incidents have been downplayed by Boeing, which has called them normal "teething problems" and "glitches" that occur normally and within acceptable safety parameters during initial rollout of aircraft.
Boeing’s stock has dropped and is now reported by the Christian Science Monitor and other media sources as going into full damage control mode. The Monitor reports that the aircraft maker’s chief project engineer, Mike Sinnett said on a teleconference on Wednesday that Boeing has "extreme confidence" in the Dreamliner and that they were "very, very happy with how it is performing."
Meanwhile, JAL has said that it has no plans to cancel the additional 38 carbon-fiber aircraft they have on order.
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