Transport ministry says no major fault at Dreamliner battery plant

National Jan. 29, 2013 - 06:41AM JST ( 9 )

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YubaruJan. 29, 2013 - 11:20AM JST

This coming on the heal of the report regarding the easing of the safety standards for the rollout of the plane makes this harder to believe coming from the mouthpiece of the government.
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ElvensilvanJan. 29, 2013 - 11:51AM JST

The transport ministry said on Monday safety inspectors had found no major problem on the production line

Of course they won't see any problem with the production line ... I'm gussing the problem lies in the design of the batteries.

But to make me change my statement, let's have the entire transport ministry, plus the ones who pushed for lax safety measures in a plane and have them take several 16-hour flights just to make sure that there is no problem with the battery.
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888naffJan. 29, 2013 - 06:06PM JST

Funny how there were plenty of commentators and "experts" commenting on this site when the JAPANESE battery was first under scrutiny, but not now... I guess most of the world are not engineers after all.
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Hide SuzukiJan. 30, 2013 - 06:48AM JST

Let's see how our JapanToday experts respond and blame the Japanese in any possible way, although Boeing should be the one responsible for ANY issue arising from their airplane
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hereforeverJan. 30, 2013 - 08:19AM JST

They stated they found no MAJOR problems. So what minor problems did they find? Cover up ..... Again?
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CrazedinjapanJan. 30, 2013 - 09:59AM JST

888 my sentiments exactly ! Basroil ??? You there ??? Still want to attack Yuasa ?? Leave the search to the inspectors and let them figure out where and what the design flaws are. The lax regulations would I suspect have also meant more relaxed quality control inspection and compatibility reports. Wherever the problems lay they will get to the bottom of it rest assured as its costing them millions every week they sit idle. The plus point to them sitting is people aren't needlessly put at risk.
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basroilJan. 30, 2013 - 11:27AM JST

hereforeverJan. 30, 2013 - 08:19AM JST

They stated they found no MAJOR problems. So what minor problems did they find? Cover up ..... Again?

Interestingly, there really don't have to be "problems" for a manufacturing error. When Sony recalled 10 million batteries a few years ago, no "problems" turned up either, and there were several fires back then. The stating of "no major problems" is perfectly legitimate, but stating that it can't be the batteries because the factories weren't on fire is a bit concerning.

It's like they stated in the article as well:

They have released a picture showing the blackened remains of the battery that inspectors removed from the plane.

But they said last week there were no signs of a battery fire

Unlike the NTSB, which investigates first and then speaks, the Japanese investigators have a childish tendency to blabber on about what they will investigate before they even look at the evidence. We're likely to see Yuasa's investigation come up again when the monitoring equipment turns out to be fine.
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basroilJan. 30, 2013 - 01:22PM JST

Seems it didn't take that long:

http://news.yahoo.com/ntsb-takes-microscopes-damaged-boeing-787-battery-005106635--finance.html

NTSB isn't saying what they are looking for, but looking that closely generally means they haven't found any conclusive evidence just looking at the connections and normal data.
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tmtmsnbJan. 30, 2013 - 06:08PM JST

Probably in a niche area no body pays attention: human spies and human saboteurs.