http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/business/safety-board-examines-787-battery-approval.html?ref=business
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"Each time another person in the organization embraces the vision and passes it on, it's like giving the vision 'fresh legs." (John C. Maxwell)
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The National (Safety) Transportation Board opened a two day hearing on Tuesday to determine how 5 years of work by Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration resulted in the approval of a lithium-ion battery for the Boeing 787 that could catch fire.
The board is looking at whether Boeing underestimated the risks involved with the new technology and how well regulators can evaluate new technologies when technical innovation is moving quickly, making it difficult for government regulators to keep up.
The FAA last week approved Boeing's plans to fix the plane's batteries. So, while the 787s could soon be flying again, investigators in the U.S. and Japan have not yet figured out "why" the batteries overheated in the first place.
I know there is a lot at stake financially but I'd want to know "why" those batteries were burning before I flew on that plane again.
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