All of the operational Boeing 787 Dreamliners in the world—50 of ’em — are now sitting on rails being poke by military man with clipboards , after aseries of refuge nigglescaused worries for air authorities and triggered a world foundation .
The high - tech airliner has a surprisingly humbled - tech Achilles ’ bounder – its battery . The current undulation of rubber business centre around the 787′s lithium - ion big businessman cadre , which have triggered two serious fire concerns in the last couple of weeks , one leading to an parking brake landing place and voidance in Japan .
As anyone who ’s disinterestedly scrolled through a technical school site in the last few class will know , modernistic li - ion batterieshave been find out to explodeand catch flaming on the odd occasion . When thathappens to a phoneit ’s a bit of a infliction . Were it to chance in the belly of an aeroplane at 30,000 foot over the Atlantic , it ’d cause slenderly larger problems . [ BBC ]
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