Were canceled today and airlines rushed to make backup plans after regulators around the world grounded boeings 787 dreamliner. Those actions came after the federal Aviation Association ordered the plane out of the air after two incidents where lithium ion batteries overheated. Boeing says it is confident the 787 is safe and says it stands behind the planes overall integrity. This is only the second time in more than 30 years that regulators have grounded a plane. Darren gersh reports. Reporter boeing has spent more than 30 billion developing the 787 dreamliner. One reason for the high cost is boeings decision to upgrade the hydraulics and other mechanical systems with nextgeneration technology that runs on electricity. Youve got generators on board the aircraft that are powering the systems directly with electricity. That, of course, means a lot more juice is flowing through the plane. It also means you need more powerful batteries as backup systems. Reporter investigators from the fe
Lithium ion batteries have a lot of power and of course there are many types of batteries out there and hopefully a substitute can be found, but nothing is absolutely set in stone at this point. Reporter boeing might be able to design a container to prevent or protect fires caused by the lithium batteries. But if the company is forced to use older, larger batteries, engineers would have to re design parts of the 787. Investigators have reached no conclusions, but they will certainly be taking a hard look at every aspect of the 787s battery. I think that the amount of problems there have been with lithium batteries historically would have to lead one to believe that youre not going to certificating an airplane, youre not going to just say this was a bad batch, bring on the next batch until somebody figures out that it was a bad batch and why it was a bad batch and what you do about it. Reporter investigators are quick to point out they have reached no conclusions in their investigation
Difficult engineering challenge. Lithium ion batteries have a lot of power and of course there are many types of batteries out there and hopefully a substitute can be found, but nothing is absolutely set in stone at this point. Reporter boeing might be able to design a container to prevent or protect fires caused by the lithium batteries. But if the company is forced to use older, larger batteries, engineers would have to re design parts of the 787. Investigators have reached no conclusions, but they will certainly be taking a hard look at every aspect of the 787s battery. I think that the amount of problems there have been with lithium batteries historically would have to lead one to believe that youre not going to certificating an airplane, youre not going to just say this was a bad batch, bring on the next batch until somebody figures out that it was a bad batch and why it was a bad batch and what you do about it. Reporter investigators are quick to point out they have reached no co
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Ordered the plane out of the air after two incidents where lithium ion batteries overheated. Boeing says it is confident the 787 is safe and says it stands behind the planes overall integrity. This is only the second time in more than 30 years that regulators have grounded a plane. Darren gersh reports. Reporter boeing has spent more than 30 billion developing the 787 dreamliner. One reason for the high cost is boeings decision to upgrade the hydraulics and other mechanical systems with nextgeneration technology that runs on electricity. Youve got generators on board the aircraft that are powering the systems directly with electricity. That, of course, means a lot more juice is flowing through the plane. It also means you need more powerful batteries as backup systems. Reporter investigators from the federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation safety board are working with their counterparts in japan to try to determine whether a manufacturing defect caused the battery