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http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021456975_787firesourcexml.html[...] Boeing and government investigators now believe the July 12 fire on a 787 Dreamliner at Heathrow Airport in London was likely caused by the incorrect installation of a small lithium battery inside an electronic device.
If that’s confirmed, the fire was due to human error, not a Boeing design flaw.
U.K. investigators who examined the device, called an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) and made by Honeywell, found that the internal wires connecting the battery to the ELT had been trapped and pinched when the cover was reattached as the batteries were inserted, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter, one inside Boeing and one outside.
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Installing the battery package entails unscrewing the cover of the relatively small device, dropping the battery pack of five cells into a slot and connecting the two wires that protrude from the battery pack to a receptacle in the ELT.
It appears the wires were trapped when the cover was put back on.
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Quindi, se confermato, questo incendio sarebbe stato causato dall'imperizia di qualcuno in Honeywell che ha assemblato in modo sbagliato il radiofaro d'emergenza. Se cosi' fosse il fatto che questo incendio sia successo su un 787 sarebbe un enorme caso di sfiga. Non ho ancora visto il report completo dell'AAIB, posto che sia gia' stato pubblicato.Boeing requests worldwide inspection of aircraft - Boeing has requested airlines carry out inspections of a transmitter used to locate aircraft after a crash. A UK regulator had recommended the inspection after a fire broke out on a 787 Dreamliner aircraft parked at Heathrow airport earlier this month. It was traced to the upper rear part of the plane where the part - Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) - is fitted. Boeing said it had asked operators of 717, Next-Generation 737, 747-400, 767 and 777 airplanes to inspect aircraft. "We're taking this action following the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) Special Bulletin, which recommended that airplane models with fixed Honeywell ELTs be inspected," Randy Tinseth, vice president marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in a blog post. (BBC News Online)