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Earlier the FAA has not clouded an entire class of aircraft since 1979.
-- -- called DC -- out of service following a major crash.
Is the FAA overreacting to this battery problem with the -- -- -- by former US Department of Transportation inspector general.
Mary ski out vote now on aviation attorney for Motley rice and and Mary is just grounding justified.
Do you think.
ES city as when they had several different kinds of incidents going on over several months that's typical of new aircraft model but now they've had at least you married and sedans with -- battery in in the aviation world to avenge his tranche BFA is not -- -- -- and -- -- A little bit of -- a limited the air rings directed to this battery and electrical problem once Boeing shows a safe way to do this or are maybe changes that -- -- -- batteries are simply defective.
Once going fixes this problem the plane and fly again yes they did not take a wide broad sweeping -- Actions to ground it.
Weren't directly from the FAA -- release of flammable electoral likes heat damage.
Smoke.
Resulting from those incidents that is dangerous these one of these batteries and the dreamliner directly underneath.
The cockpit that's certainly a problem but what the concern is now with regards to Boeing.
And the aircraft itself is that the FAA and the government's -- regulators are gonna be stepping out and this is gonna take months of investigative work.
To determine whether or not this is say that could leave the future production line at the dreamliner.
In jeopardy is that correct.
Well that's true it depends what I'm -- remember the days -- already of the dream my theory all process he is going to be my -- for -- very long time this Airways directed concerns of battery electric gulch and -- time really depends on the -- it is just a problem of the expected battery and they don't have to re engineer and they don't change the -- your computer -- touch and it's a very fast -- If they have to re engineer or changing -- and then they have to get that particular harder component.
Or process recertified by the FAA well.
One of the things marry that took so long be remembered that the 787 -- -- it was three years delayed there's only eighty of these planes right now flying around.
Boeing is sitting on a 300 aircraft order that's.
Bar from fulfilled and what the FAA is saying as the because of what it controls and again this is flight controls emergency lighting -- of course this is crucial aircraft.
-- facilities that are being run by this this battery which.
Now as big question is whether or not even safe Jeff Flock reporting bonnets and in the auto industry his sources they're telling him that they got concerns about it in cars.
Aircraft -- completely.
Different story are you are you confident that this battery can be sustained in an aircraft.
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To -- that the pilots have smoker -- would -- the passengers were not so it's very serious and that's why here are pretty strict and grounded them.
Well I did other they had of the CEO is is speaking what the FAA -- cost the communication we're gonna monitor our viewers.
Risky -- thank you very much joining us via Skype today thanks -- You.
