{"id":1064,"date":"2016-04-26T03:42:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2016-04-26T03:42:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:42:38","slug":"faa-orders-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"FAA orders fix for Boeing 787 engine icing problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FAA orders fix<\/strong>\u00a0for Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an ordered for all airlines to fix an issue with certain engines on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner due to engine icing issues. The problem reported is\u00a0related to the\u00a0specific model\u00a0GEnx-1B PIP2 engine built by General Electric. This model may be susceptible to internal engine icing, which may cause the engine to\u00a0shut down during\u00a0flight. The issue reportedly effects\u00a0176 aircraft\u00a0in service, or about 4 out of every 9 Dreamliners\u00a0currently in service.\u00a0The recommended fix involves a\u00a0modification to the engine to\u00a0prevent ice from accumulating on the fan blades. Airlines are being asked to modify or replace\u00a0at least one of the two engines on the affected aircraft in the next five months.\u00a0The order was issued\u00a0following an incident where\u00a0one of the two engines on a Japan Airlines 787 jet failed in flight\u00a0en route\u00a0to Tokyo from Vancouver, Canada. The crew was not able to get the failed engine restarted, and had to continue on to Narita Airport\u00a0with one working engine.<\/p>\n

The FAA orders fix for Boeing 787 again<\/h2>\n

This is not the first time that we have heard that the FAA orders a fix for the Boeing 787 aircraft. In\u00a0January of\u00a02013, the FAA issued an emergency airworthiness directive that grounded the entire fleet of\u00a0Boeing 787 aircraft. This came following two separate incidents involving the airplane. The first one occurred\u00a0at Logan International Airport in Boston, when a fire started in the battery compartment of a parked Japan Airlines 787. The fire started in an area of the plane where the aircrafts lithium-ion batteries were located, leading to speculation that that was the main suspect in the fire.\u00a0The second involved a United Airlines 787\u00a0that\u00a0reported a wiring problem in one of its Dreamliner aircraft. The wiring issue happened to be located in the same area as the battery fire on the Japan Airlines plane.\u00a0The FAA eventually issued a mandate that all the lithium-ion batteries be\u00a0replaced by newer technology lithium manganate batteries.<\/p>\n

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Image from\u00a0www.boeing.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The FAA orders fix\u00a0for Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an ordered for all airlines to fix an issue with certain engines on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner due to engine icing issues. The problem reported is\u00a0related to the\u00a0specific model\u00a0GEnx-1B PIP2 engine built by General Electric. This model may be susceptible to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}