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Heathrow fire on Boeing Dreamliner 'started in battery component'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/heathrow-fire-boeing-dreamliner-battery[font face=Serif][font size=5]Heathrow fire on Boeing Dreamliner 'started in battery component'[/font]
[font size=4]Investigators say crew would have struggled to contain blaze once plane was in mid-air[/font]
Gwyn Topham, transport correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 July 2013 12.33 EDT
[font size=3]The fire on board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Heathrow last week started in a component carrying lithium batteries, investigators have said, in a blaze that crew would have struggled to contain mid-flight.
Early findings show that the fire, which burned through the fuselage of the plane and filled the cabin with acrid smoke, could not have been easily extinguished, or quickly detected while the plane was airborne.
Britain's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has urged American aviation authorities to ensure that the component, an emergency locator transmitter powered by lithium-manganese dioxide batteries, be removed or disconnected.
The transmitter is a homing beacon used in emergencies to locate a missing plane, and removing the part should not affect the Dreamliner. There was no suggestion from the AAIB that the plane should again be taken out of service.
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[font size=4]Investigators say crew would have struggled to contain blaze once plane was in mid-air[/font]
Gwyn Topham, transport correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 18 July 2013 12.33 EDT
[font size=3]The fire on board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Heathrow last week started in a component carrying lithium batteries, investigators have said, in a blaze that crew would have struggled to contain mid-flight.
Early findings show that the fire, which burned through the fuselage of the plane and filled the cabin with acrid smoke, could not have been easily extinguished, or quickly detected while the plane was airborne.
Britain's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) has urged American aviation authorities to ensure that the component, an emergency locator transmitter powered by lithium-manganese dioxide batteries, be removed or disconnected.
The transmitter is a homing beacon used in emergencies to locate a missing plane, and removing the part should not affect the Dreamliner. There was no suggestion from the AAIB that the plane should again be taken out of service.
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