Sunday, April 24, 2016

Boeing must fix Dreamliner engines – tagesschau.de

The US Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing has asked to check the engines of its type machines Dreamliner. Reason is an engine failure at a Boeing 787 on a flight from Vancouver to Tokyo in late January. The arrangement applies again raises security issues initially only for US Airlines

The Dreamliner the US aviation company Boeing. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) called the company to , within five months to check the engines of its Boeing 787 machines because they threatened to fail during flight. The “urgent” assembly concerns the engines from General Electric, with which the Boeing-787 are equipped.

The authority informed on its website, they react with it to an incident at the end of January. At the time, the right engine suddenly failed in a Boeing 787 Japanese airline Japan Airlines on the flight from Vancouver to Tokyo in 6000 meters altitude. The pilots could not restart but continue the flight with the fully operational engine left him. The FAA said the required repairs to the machines manufactured by General Electric (GE), ice formation should be prevented within the engines.

The statement of the authority while only applies to the 43 Dreamliner from US carriers. Worldwide, however, 176 machines are concerned. but usually follow foreign airlines the recommendations of the US authorities.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was in 2011 been taken with three-year delay in operation. Since then, the machine has repeatedly because of technical problems for headlines. Because of repeated problems with lithium-ion batteries, all Boeing 787 Dreamliner were drawn world for several months from circulation in January, 2013. When two machines, the batteries had overheated, said in a parked aircraft on the ground a fire broke out.

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