Investigators scold Boeing over 787 comments

March 22, 2013 @ 6:31 am

(AP) - It appears that Boeing's comments about the smoldering batteries on its 787 have annoyed the National Transportation Safety Board.

Boeing gave its own account of two battery incidents, which include a fire, at a detailed press briefing in Tokyo last week. The problem is that the NTSB is still investigating the incidents.

In a letter to Boeing, the NTSB says failure to provide advance notice of what company officials would say at the briefing is "inconsistent with our expectations" for a party to an investigation.

Boeing officials said several things at the briefing that raised eyebrows. One was the belief that there was no fire inside the battery itself in either of the two incidents. But the NTSB has never ruled out a fire.


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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    I will explain it
    February 7, 2013 10:44 am
    CH's whole life revolves around making flippant "stupid" comments here ....but on a side note shows what liberals are like!ty4that.
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  • Ontos wrote...
    Boeing needs to put a positive face
    March 22, 2013 8:12 am
    On this entire debacle. This whole program was a huge black-eye for Boeing. They offloaded the engineering to their own detriment. Now they're paying the price for their business misjudgments.
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  • southi5 wrote...
    Boeing
    March 22, 2013 8:51 am
    is paying the price for all the strikes and money lost during the design/build process as well. They offloaded some engineering because the ones that were supposed to be working for them were on strike, let's not let the unions off the hook here, if they "knew" the batteries were bad why didn't they go on strike about that
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