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AAIB recommends emergency locator transmitters to be disabled on Dreamliner aircraft

London, United Kingdom - The agency has not yet reached a conclusion on what caused the fire on July 12 at Heathrow

Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), the agency of UK's Department for Transport which investigates on aircraft accidents, issued two safety recommendations related with the inquiry regarding the fire which involved a 787 Dreamliner aircraft operated by Ethiopian Airlines at London-Heathrow Airport on Friday 12 July 2013. The fire apaprently started in the zone of the transmitter of the airplane,...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1154099
Rome, Italy, 07/18/2013 18:11
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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