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Old Jul 18, 2013 | 12:24 pm
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Originally Posted by apodo77
Apparently these are on several different types of airplanes.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least. I'm sure there is plenty more investigation to be done. I'm just offering ideas here but there may be a possibility that the position or orientation of the unit may be a contributing factor. Obviously we don't know too much at all yet. Out of 6000 the one that catches fire just happens to be on a 787 seems cruel luck. All aircraft old and new have their problems but this is a particularly bad run of events.
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