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Planform view of a 787-9 showing its 9.6 wing aspect ratio and 32° wing sweep Front view of a Vietnam Airlines 787-10, the fuselage is 19 ft (5.8 m) wide and 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft (5.94 m) high while the fan has a 9.3 ft (2.8 m) diameter. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is a long-haul, widebody, twin-engine jetliner, designed with lightweight structures ...
LATAM Airlines Flight 800. Categories: Aviation accidents and incidents by aircraft. Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
2013 Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounding. In 2013, the second year of service for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a widebody jet airliner, several of the aircraft suffered from electrical system problems stemming from its lithium-ion batteries. Incidents included two electrical fires, one aboard an All Nippon Airways 787 and another on a Japan Airlines ...
As of February 2024 [update], there have been a total of 529 aviation accidents and incidents involving all 737 aircraft (not all are notable enough for inclusion on this list), [ Note 1 ] which have resulted in a total of 5,779 fatalities and 234 hull losses. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The 737 first entered airline service in February 1968; [ 3 ] the 10,000th ...
Air France Flight 865, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (registered F-HRBF) en route from N'Djamena, Chad to Charles-De Gaulle Airport was escorted until landing in Paris by a French Air Force jet after receiving an anonymous threat regarding the presence of an explosive device on board. The aircraft landed normally, and the passengers were evacuated ...
Diane Johnson. John Mitchell Barnett (February 23, 1962 – March 9, 2024) was an American whistleblower who was known for his substantiated safety and quality reports to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) about Boeing's production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and death which occurred amidst a lawsuit he brought against Boeing.
The aircraft was a Boeing 787-9, MSN 38461, registered as CC-BGG, that was manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 2015. It first flew around December 2015 and was equipped with two Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines. [6] [7] The aircraft had operated the outbound flight, LA801, from Santiago to Sydney via Auckland. [8]
t. e. The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a flight stabilizing feature developed by Boeing that became notorious for its role in two fatal accidents of the 737 MAX in 2018 and 2019, which killed all 346 passengers and crew among both flights. Because the CFM International LEAP engine used on the 737 MAX was larger and ...