How Safe is Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner? What Will the Investigation Focus on?

They will investigate everything. They will search for the data recorders (black boxes), which are designed to survive a crash. If these are recovered, investigators will be able to view all the flight data, hear all the cockpit conversations. They will take all the information from the control tower. Sometimes clues can be found from all this data. They will also examine the wreckage of the aircraft in detail.

It’s a different situation from the Boeing 737 Max groundings, which followed two crashes linked to a specific and repeatable software flaw.

In the current case, unless investigators identify a recurring technical problem that poses an immediate risk to other 787s, a fleet-wide grounding would be unlikely. Safety is always the top priority, but regulatory responses typically depend on whether an issue appears to be isolated or part of a broader pattern.

It must be said that the 787 Dreamliner has a very good safety record. It had a very long certification period with the Federal Aviation Administration in the US.

(In this piece, Professor Ali Elham from the University of Southampton’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, speaks to The Conversation’s Paul Rincon. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.)

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