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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Catches Fire in London

Jon Ostrower and—Daniel Michaels, Andy Pasztor and Duncan Mavin contributed to this article above.

Please refer to Title Link for a complete preliminary report from the WSJ.

Once again the 787 has promulgated another fire incident report for the Head scratchers at London Heathrow Airport on an Ethiopian 787 parked empty. This "engine is off" event is difficult to report about, only speculative commentary is being accepted at this time by the world's press inferring in a continuous stream of relevance through talking about a battery from the last fire tying it to this fire. Fortunately, a recurring fire symptom happens most often on the 787, when it is on the ground and empty of passengers. The early facts will quickly suggest an area of investigation. Where on the 787 the fire happen, what happen, and when did it happen? Investigations don't drive the newspaper, but a vacuum of detail are awaiting the evening news. Once that vacuum is filled with the dirt, then a proper investigation and news headline can be written.  Right now its a stock market headline, not a passenger headline. What is disturbing is the recurrence of the word "fire", at one of the world's foremost airports, London Heathrow.


Image showing the fire damage to the Ethiopian 787 via Sky News
This is severe damage to to the CFRP structure above the crews rest quarters and galley area. The investigators have the hot spot to decipher.

Boeing is in need of a break, because they cannot manufacture any more headlines assisting the Dreamliner, without flying an aircraft that could be grounded very soon, and once again! Unless they (investigators) come up with a plausible cause for fire that could of happen on any aircraft parked at an airport. Boeing needs a third party cause for fire at London Heathrow, like a cigarette butt in the garbage, or a kitchen fire that lights up a galley or in the bathroom long after the customers unload. I don't think that will happen since the press is eager for headlines. Boeing you are guilty again by association of another fire on another 787. I hope and pray this does not become another Hindenburg catastrophe at some point in the future. Oh, Stay away from docking mast in New Jersey, "787"! Lessons have been learned, and are still being learned as the aircraft is used. One can speculate, but no one for certain knows what is going on with the 787 problems experienced by its customers. All anyone can sense is that Boeing needs to get its arms around the problems instead of the usual PR responses.