Yet another emergency landing for the Dreamliner

Reoil

What on earth is happening with this plane?!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21038128

A Boeing 787 plane makes an emergency landing in Japan

A Boeing 787 aircraft operated by All Nippon Airways (ANA) has made an emergency landing at Takamatsu airport after a battery malfunction.

A spokesperson for ANA said all 129 passengers and 8 crew were taken off the plane safely.

The flight was number NH 692 going from Yamaguchi Ube to Tokyo's Haneda.

This is the latest in a series of problems to hit the 787 Dreamliner in recent days, including a fuel leak and a cracked cockpit windshield.

Flight NH 692 left Yamaguchi Ube in western Japan at 08:10 local time (23:10 GMT) and was forced to land at 08:47 at Takamatsu airport.

ANA said that there was an error message in the cockpit citing a battery malfunction.

However, it would not confirm or deny reports that there was smoke in the cockpit or in the cabin.

Bloody*Mary

Most new design aircraft have 'teething' problems in the initial operation phase.

Hopefully these problems can be ironed out soon, as the adverse publicity won't help.

A major incident, of course, would be an entirely different matter entirely.

Flier

ANA and JAL have grounded their 787 fleets - boeing need to sort this out and fast before more customers start to loose confidence.

mike65

Whats Boeing cash reserve like I wonder?

LeftBase

None of the issues have been serious, although any issue when you are a couple of miles up in the air is quite serious until you are on the ground sipping a cool drink.

I'd say Airbus management are dancing a merry tune at all this bad publicity for Boeing. Personally I would now be nervous about boarding a 787 for fear the "big" one may be that one. I'm educated(I hope) in aviation mechanics etc to a higher level than Joe Soap, so I can only guess what the average hysterical customer is going to be thinking!

brandon_flowers

I think that commercially the most important thing here is not that the fleet (ANA and JAL have almost all of them anyway) is grounded but how long they remain grounded. JAL and ANA will obviously stand behind Boeing publicly, if they don't it looks like they backed the wrong horse so to speak. But they will be breaking Boeing's balls with penalties if the grounding becomes prolonged.

I would agree with LeftBase regarding hysterics, many sceptics are just waiting for the wings to fall off an A380 anytime soon.

Tea 1000

Looks like the main concern are the batteries. Lithium batteries are dangerous items, so problems with them could potentially be serious. Cracked windscreen and fuel leak could all be one-off teething issues. Only recurring one is the battery one.