@cstross If you don't want to believe some random internet commenter, consider that this report hasn't been covered or so much as mentioned by any of the major reliable news sources who specialize in aviation. Nothing on The Air Current (who broke the fuel cutoff switch story days before official announcement), Leeham News, Seattle Times. All of those would report on things like this within hours if there was something to them.
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Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787!@cstross All of the the "explosive" parts of the report people are quoting are just flavour text and conjecture. The actual information is just... nothing. Yeah they sometimes have electrical issues. They all do. Yeah they report back thousands more parameters to the company than they display to pilots. They all do. It's for predictive maintainance. Yeah planes routinely take off with various systems mildly broken. It's called the Minimum Equipment List. None of it is even relevant to AI171.
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Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787!@cstross This does not pass the sniff test
- The original report seems sensationally written to damage boeing in a way that just reads like a short seller report
- The NTSB is much more independent than the FAA
- If air india had reason to believe their planes were unsafe, they'd be pushing boeing for a solution
- The actual issues described do not sound that concerning
- The flight recorder records the physical movement of the switches. It is unlikely to have been caused by what is described