Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
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Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
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Re: Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
#2Arrivals and departures suspended at Heathrow? How isn't this a complete overreaction?
EDIT: And why downvote someone asking a question? I learned something by asking this question.
Re: Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
#3Arrivals and departures suspended at Heathrow? How isn't this a complete overreaction? EDIT: And why downvote someone asking a question? I learned something by asking this question.
Sounds like a standard operational procedure when there's an emergency. From the BBC article:
A Heathrow spokesman said: "Arrivals and departures were temporarily suspended while airport fire crews attended to this incident."
"This is a standard procedure if fire crews are occupied with an incident."
Re: Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
#4A spot check on stock price is the absolute least interesting aspect of this story.
I don't even know why WSJ continues to print these kinds of stories...it's not like it is hard to keep track of Boeing's stock price.
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#5Arrivals and departures suspended at Heathrow? How isn't this a complete overreaction? EDIT: And why downvote someone asking a question? I learned something by asking this question.
Makes perfect sense. If the emergency crews are attending to a situation somewhere else in the airport, there's now no emergency facilities available in the event of another emergency happening to another plane that's departing or landing. This poses a serious risk. It's safer to just stop operations and divert inbound flights to one of London's other airports, Gatwick being a prime candidate due to its distance and facilities.
Re: Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
#6Arrivals and departures suspended at Heathrow? How isn't this a complete overreaction? EDIT: And why downvote someone asking a question? I learned something by asking this question.
Sounds like a standard operational procedure when there's an emergency. From the BBC article: A Heathrow spokesman said: "Arrivals and departures were temporarily suspended while airport fire crews attended to this incident." "This is a standard procedure if fire crews are occupied with an incident."
Sounds like the right move. You'd hate for a chain reaction to make things worse. Things could escalate VERY quickly, in a very bad way.
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#7I'm curious whether if the fire is again battery related whether Elon Musk will reiterate his offer to help with the battery technology. Tony Stark (who in the movie version is partly based on Elon) surely would...
Re: Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
#8Arrivals and departures suspended at Heathrow? How isn't this a complete overreaction? EDIT: And why downvote someone asking a question? I learned something by asking this question.
The emergency services have to safely get to the incident, possibly using the extra entrances for that purpose.
Aircraft full of passengers landing at the same time as emergency vehicles trying to get to an incident of potentially unknown severity seems like a recipe for disaster.
Aviation is a shining example of how thought about risk, learning from failures/mistakes and evolving standard operating procedures can almost completely de-risk an inherently risky environment.
I came across this article after the incident in SFO earlier in the week:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777
No flight related deaths since it began service in 1995 - I've been thinking about that all week. That is some inspirational engineering.
Re: Boeing Shares Sink on Reports of Dreamliner Fire
#9Arrivals and departures suspended at Heathrow? How isn't this a complete overreaction? EDIT: And why downvote someone asking a question? I learned something by asking this question.
Makes perfect sense. If the emergency crews are attending to a situation somewhere else in the airport, there's now no emergency facilities available in the event of another emergency happening to another plane that's departing or landing. This poses a serious risk. It's safer to just stop operations and divert inbound flights to one of London's other airports, Gatwick being a prime candidate due to its distance and…
> there's now no emergency facilities available in the event of another emergency happening
They only have the ability to deal with one emergency at a time? That strikes me as sub-optimal, especially if the "emergency" is contained within a single parked aircraft. Diversion is probably costing all the airlines involved a ton. I think it would be worthwhile for emergency facilities to have a backup.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Makes perfect sense. If the emergency crews are attending to a situation somewhere else in the airport, there's now no emergency facilities available in the event of another emergency happening to another plane that's departing or landing. This poses a serious risk. It's safer to just stop operations and divert inbound flights to one of London's other airports, Gatwick being a prime candidate due to its distance and…
> there's now no emergency facilities available in the event of another emergency happening They only have the ability to deal with one emergency at a time? That strikes me as sub-optimal, especially if the "emergency" is contained within a single parked aircraft. Diversion is probably costing all the airlines involved a ton. I think it would be worthwhile for emergency facilities to have a backup.
I can deal with two servers being down at once at work, but I'd prefer to only have to deal with one. Same thing with airports, I'd imagine.