Originally Posted by
MiraculousM
Hi.. so i am not well in bed and stupidly was searching on youtube for dreamliner videos and came across an old doc that Al Jazeera did before the engine problems regarding batteries and dreamliner and basically how terribly that they are built.
I have a close friend coming in March on a Dreamliner from Newark on BA and it has me very worried. I mean, you are flying over the atlantic so if something were to go wrong there isnt a nearby airport you can land in
- are the BA planes ones built by boeing in Colorado or Washington?
- considering how many problems the dreamliner has had since it has gone out to the market, how come it hasnt been pulled altogether
Im super anxious now about this flight. I see BA pull a few 787 flights regularly and that isnt helping.
If you can find a plane that has not been involved in a crash, fly on it.....oh wait...that's the dreamliner. Everyting else has had crashes, and some like the 737 and DC10 had flaws that required the airlines to refit their entire fleet. The 737 is one of the most common aircraft in the world, and has had plenty of accidents. And the Airbus A320 crashed and burned during it's media premier flight in 1988 due to a computer issue..yet, odds are if you are flying domestic somewhere you are on a 737 or A320.
Yes, the lithium batteries were an issue, but there has been no accident because of it. As a matter of fact, the Dreamliner is probably one of the safest aircraft to fly. For one thing, it's carbon fiber body means less rivets and less metal fatigue meaning less chance of a hull breach or decompression and it can do way more flight cycles before structural integrity becomes an issue. It can also take more strain and has a better performance envelope for handling unusual upsets. Due to it's efficiency it carries less fuel, which means less fire if you do crash.