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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 02:58 PM Jul 2012

Debris from Boeing dreamliner engine sets area around Charleston airport runway ablaze

Debris from a brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliner's engine fell onto the runway and into the grass at Charleston International Airport Saturday afternoon, sparking a fire, shutting down the airport and diverting flights for more than an hour.

“A 787 experienced an engine issue today while undergoing preflight runway testing in North Charleston,” Boeing SC spokeswoman Candy Eslinger said Saturday night.

The gravity of the mishap spurred an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, Eslinger added.

“After the investigation, we will determine what went wrong and come up with a remedy,” she said.

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http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120729/PC16/120729133/1165/boeing-dreamliner-mishap-prompts-airport-runway-closure-flight-delays

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Debris from Boeing dreamliner engine sets area around Charleston airport runway ablaze (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2012 OP
maybe the charleston airport could invest in a fire department? nt msongs Jul 2012 #1
They must have a fire rescue on scene, and based at the airport nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #3
for more of those "suck at the trough" BlueToTheBone Jul 2012 #4
Those are big complicated machines and this one was just off the line being tested dballance Jul 2012 #2
The 737 is the last respectable plane Boeing ever built. Everything since has been shit. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #5
Boeing doesn't make the engines. nt hack89 Jul 2012 #7
I smell corporate cost-cutting behind this mishap. kestrel91316 Jul 2012 #6
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
3. They must have a fire rescue on scene, and based at the airport
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 03:06 PM
Jul 2012

This sounds like a level one commercial response.

And indeed they do, shared with the AF base.

 

dballance

(5,756 posts)
2. Those are big complicated machines and this one was just off the line being tested
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 03:05 PM
Jul 2012

I think things transpired just as they should have. The plane was being tested and some defect must have caused the incident. That's why they test them like this. To ferret out any defects on the ground before they release them to be put into the air.

Thank goodness they get to find out what happened this way rather than trying to reassemble the plane after a crash and loss of life.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
6. I smell corporate cost-cutting behind this mishap.
Sun Jul 29, 2012, 04:12 PM
Jul 2012

Not sure why. It's not like it's ever happened before.

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