Looks like yet another Dreamliner is on fire — this sentence , it ’s on the tarmac at London Heathrow Airport . ( Luckily , it look the jet is empty . ) You ’ll remember that the Boeing 787 was initially undercoat back in January after one of the aircraft caught fire on the earth at Boston Logan Airport . This unexampled fire comes just months after a revised design of the Dreamliner with a new shelling systemwas cleared for take offby the FAA and external flight of stairs organisation . Uh oh .
Overhauled Boeing 787 Dreamliner formally Cleared for Take Off by the FAA ( Updated )
The BBCreportsthat the Ethiopia Airlines flight caught fire Friday good afternoon , come together the intact airport . It appear there were no injuries . For its part , Boeing confirmed the “ issue ” on Twitter and said that it ’s process with authorities to remedy the problem .

We ’re aware of the 787 event@HeathrowAirportand have Boeing personnel there . We ’re work to fully infer and address this .
— Boeing Airplanes ( @BoeingAirplanes)July 12 , 2013
There ’s no prescribed word on the cause of the ardour just yet , but we ’ll update as we check more .

This ardor is seriously risky news for the Dreamliner and Boeing . The ship’s company took a big risk on the Dreamliner ’s battery excogitation , and it ended up being a liability . For better or worse , the initial fire was a hiccup that officials and the aviation industry were willing to abide . Who knows if the Dreamliner will survive this incident . A second fir in six month would be bad . And that does n’t even take into account that the Dreamliner was grounded for a big chunk of that metre . [ BBC ]
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