Boeing Dreamliner Catches Fire In Boston

19061969 writes "The BBC reports that a Boeing 787 Dreamliner caught fire in Boston. Carter Leake, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets in Virginia, said, 'I don't want to be an alarmist, but onboard fires on airplanes are as bad as it gets.' This represents bad news for Boeing especially after the FAA identified errors in the assembly of fuel line couplings in the Dreamliner."

With one fire

[Cryacin]

The dreamliner turns into a nightmare. Film at 11.

Comment removed

[account_deleted]

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Re:A bit alarmist and FUD

[tompaulco]

Citing a thing like "FAA identified errors in the assembly of fuel line couplings in the Dreamliner." when the actual fire, according to this morning's Boston Globe, was "[a] Small electrical fire..."
This article brought to you by Airbus Industries.

Makes you wish

[Quila]

you could open a window

Re:Titanic

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear passengers: I have bad and good news for you. The bad news: we lost a wing. The good news: it was on fire anyway.

Re:Lithium ion battery

[ElectricTurtle]

I think AC is immune to all pressure effects.... don't you remember the time that AC escaped from the nazis by scuba diving out of a torpedo tube at 180 meters depth?

Re:Titanic

[Anonymous Coward]

A plane full of priests and boy scouts... Nevermind, that's simply too terrifying to contemplate.

Re:Lithium ion battery

[VorpalRodent]

I was considering lauding your rigorous statistics, but I can't find anything to support it. The closest thing I can find is the fact that there have been zero deaths of human cannonballs in the last 18 months. This suggests to me that flying in nothing at all is better than flying in an airplane. While ducks and other seasonal game may disagree on the point, I would think that most other birds would agree that plane-less flight is actually safer on a per-mile basis.

Besides, bathtubs can't fly. That's just silly.