Dreamliner fire blamed on lithium-manganese battery
By Siobhan Lismore-Scott
Published: Friday, 19 July 2013
Honeywell ELT must be pulled, investigators urge Boeing
The fire aboard a parked Boeing 787 at London
Heathrow last week has been attributed to the lithium-manganese
dioxide battery within the plane’s Emergency Locator
Transmitter (ELT).
Examiners with the Air Accidents Investigation Branch have
recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
makes the ELT, which is manufactured...