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| Quote: The Japanese airline ANA says it has found an electrical wiring problem in fire extinguishers for engines of three Dreamliner jets. The problem - the latest in a series of setbacks for Boeing's 787 - was first discovered during pre-flight maintenance of a jet at Tokyo airport, an ANA spokeswoman said. The airline said it was investigating whether the faulty wiring would have caused the extinguisher to malfunction in case of an engine fire. After ANA reported the fault, rival Japan Airlines turned back a 787 jet en route to Helsinki to check the fire extinguisher wiring. | |
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This is incredible. You would have expected this sort of problem would have been detected by the engineers at Boeing or the FAA prior to them certifying the aircraft design. You would not expect it to get through manufacture and operation before this design flaw was detected. Kudos to the ANA maintenance staff for being able to find a problem that really should have been spotted earlier.